Audacity Forum

The advice offered above by waxcylinder ... is not universally appropriate. Yes it is, or a variation of it is. Audacity Projects are not like the robust Photoshop internal "project" format. Projects can consist of hundreds of thousands of little sound snippets each one with its own Mean ...

Just to be clear, are you playing an acoustic guitar into a microphone, or plugging your electric guitar pickup into the computer? We have to build your system in our head, so we need enough to do it accurately.

Koz

So how do I fix this?

Just to be crystal clear about this, it is fixed. You want to break it.

Borrow a second computer and use Audacity to record the incoming conversation on that. The problem is trying to do all those jobs on one computer.

Koz

Does the button change color when you "push" it. Does the shortcut work, the "P" key?

Koz

I don't always have the luxury of setting a scene or control over a particular microphone That never happens to me....... We should be very clear that the Profile step be correct. Select noise by itself without any performance in the selection. Without that, the tool is severely compromised. Noise ...

Noise Reduction works by removing sound from the performance. It removes the trash that you don't want in addition to a little sound that you do. It's unavoidable. It pokes holes in the show. There will always be some degradation of the show when you use Noise Reduction. Noise Reduction is always a ...

If you're overdubbing, play and record track balance is generally set by the interface, although you can use some of the Audacity track controls to help. Many USB interfaces have a fader with Playback on one side and Live on the other. Adjust for pleasant mix during the performance.

Koz

Do the two track's blue waves match? Typically, if the Piano and String tracks have similar size blue waves, then the two performances should be about the same volume. You can mess with individual volumes with the volume sliders to the left of each track, but if the blue waves are seriously off matc...

No, It's not normal. You get that when you use multiple compressions on an audio show. YouTube is a compressed medium and the show will always sound the same if you never change it or recompress it. You added MP3 compression distortion and damage to the YouTube compression. One way around that is re...

OMG some one should make a updated version on utube tutorials Everybody keeps assuming this is a corporate/user model and it's not. We're all volunteers including the YouTube people. That means You should be volunteering to make the new training videos for YouTube. There is no "they" and ...