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We can help you stop trying. We can't make a voice sound like anything else. As you found, changing pitch isn't the answer because the difference between voices isn't just a pitch change. It's acting more than anything else. Lauren Bacall's voice was lower than Humphrey Bogart's. "You know how ...

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Koz

I don't know that I ever heard of this happening with USB audio before, but it's possible. Windows sound channels are not "flat." They're aggressively managed for proper voices in conferencing and business communications. You should find all those settings and turn them off. http://manual....

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Aren't these erratic problems fun?

I don't know where to go from here.

Can you post some of the noise? Include normal music leading into a noise segment.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=64936

Koz

Do you get blue waves that fill the timeline from +1 to -1? Do you have the Overload Indicator set? View > Show Clipping. In Windows I believe you can change the recording level of a USB device with the recording slider on the main edit window.

Koz

No, we got that. People go on and on about matching waveforms and direction of transitions... http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/BadAndGoodEdit.jpg ...(bad on top), the most trouble you can get into is to not match the DC levels of the waves. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/DCOffset.jpg A see...

It happens because you have a damaged VST plugin -- possibly for another program -- and the scan failed. There are ways around this. Looking....

Koz

However

There is no "however."

Play slowly backwards.

I'll wait.

Koz

Any thoughts for Vocal Isolation?

Koz

Since we're changing Vocal Removal. I'd like a different pan pot. "Follow the Singer." Suppose the singer isn't in the middle? The current tool is wedded to Middle Cancellation, but if you change the ratio of left to right, you can "find" a singer anywhere in the performance and ...