Audacity Forum

Yes. That happens if you have a mono show. You may have two tracks -- two blue waves, but they're the same. Vocal Removal only works on a stereo show, where some music is on the left and some on the right in your headphones. Vocal Removal takes out anything in the middle. It's official name is "...

The idea is to turn the turntable on, plug it into the computer. Turn the computer on and then start Audacity. That insures at each step that the equipment "knows" about each other. Does the turntable plug into the wall power? I doubt you need the software that came with the turntable. It ...

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time. It just accepts the bitstream from the turntable and turns it into a file -- if that's what you want. Noise reduction fails a lot more than it succeeds. We published a list of tools you can use to help a phonograph recording. A note: If the recordings are 7...

There are still waves present in the project screen to indicate that the file exists. You need one more piece to get sound. Do you have the bouncing green sound meters like this: http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg Are the blue waves similar in size to these? I recorded a file for...

That can happen when you plug a powerful, high level, stereo signal into the pink or Mic-In on a computer. They don't match.

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By the way, that's something else you can't do, either. Most laptops don't have a powerful, stereo Line-In (blue). Most of them only have a sensitive pink Mic-In which easily overloads. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCLaptopSound.jpg Scroll down to Connections. http://www.kozco.com/tech/aud...

Microphones, unless you have one of those fancy-pants USB jobs, have a really tiny electrical signal. Somewhere in the system there has to be a Mic-Pre or microphone preamplifier so your voice can compete with the instruments' much louder signal. So, no, unless the pedal says it has a Mic-Pre inside...

You're sure you are using Audacity 1.3 and not 1.2? Audacity 1.2 has serious troubles with newer Macs. I see you have about a hundred things running at once. Does Audacity still open funny if you close everything and restart the Mac? Try to open Audacity with a clean machine and nothing else running...

And then the coffee kicks in. You can't do Karaoke straight through the computer. The process of digitizing and then un-digitizing your voice takes time and you'll never be able to sing in sync. A simple sound mixer should do it. I use the Peavey PV-6 for a lot of live jobs. You can put the computer...

If you want to sing or talk live over an existing sound track, that's called Multitrack or Overdubbing. We wrote a good piece on how to do that with several different techniques. However, you won't need the speakers. You can't do good quality overdubbing with speakers and a live microphone in the sa...