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Alternately, if you have a recording system that can change "modes" like a Zoom recorder. You may accidentally have chosen one of the matrix or special purpose modes or configurations instead of just simple record my voice and go home. If you do fix it, you need to tell us what it was. We ...

Echoes and compression-sounding distortion is permanent. It's two of the four horsemen for destroying a show.
Koz

Actually, it may be a lot more straightforward than I thought. It sounds like you recorded the first track with your laptop built-in microphone and not your high quality performance microphone. Obviously, the second track is normal. The laptop microphone would pick up the room echoes and sound prett...

That does not seem to make sense.

Yes, that's what I was getting to. You can't do that. How are you listening to the Mix Export? Personal MP3 Music Player? Windows Media Player?

Koz

What kind of Mac? Does it happen on earbuds connected to the Mac? Do you use SoundFlower to record internet audio? Do you have Skype? Download and play this short 38 second clip. Play it first with Audacity closed. Browser player or QuickTime Player. http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhaset4.wav It's ...

I think you were perfectly clear. The Windows Conferencing Services are famous for producing tunnel and barrel-speaking effects. Follow the links to turn it off. AUP isn't a sound file. It's an Audacity Project manager and it's plain text. That's why it's so small. http://forum.audacityteam.org/view...

You posted in a portion of the forum where we can't tell anything about you. We need to find out a lot more to diagnose the problem. Windows? Which one? Which Audacity? How much hard drive space do you have? What kind of microphone and how do you have it connected? That will give us a push. Please n...

You can achieve exactly the same results they did using the exact same song in the same initial quality. The cancellation-style vocal removal fails more often than it succeeds. The odds are heavily stacked against you. Compressed music doesn't work as well as clean music which means internet downloa...

Which Windows? If you're on Win7 or Vista, you should look in the audio control panels for corporate conferencing and sound processing tools. Modern laptops are not entertainment recorders. They're designed to connect to the corporate main office and have a remote board meeting. Scroll down to Confe...

Some multi-channel sound devices configure the channels into stereo bunches. Audacity will only record one bunch. If the system can be made to recognize all the channels, there is also the possibility you will only be able to record from 1-2 or 3-4, not all four at once. See what you can dig up. Koz