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It will help, but Chris has limit settings to avoid digging up microphone and system noise and trying to make it into show. You may need to move those limits.
Koz

There is no "slow it down so I can hear it." That's called scrubbing and it's a future feature request. The best you can do is work with the magnifier tools and find edit points by looking at the blue waves. You can set ridiculously accurate edits that way, but no, it's not as natural as s...

while i'm actually playing

You mean while you're actually recording?

Audacity Preferences > Recording > [X] Playthrough

There are sometimes Windows Control Panel settings that can affect this.

Koz

I don't believe 1.3.12 exhibited the same behaviour but I will check. Yes, it would be really good to know that. When you start doing multiple tracks like that, Audacity may try to do everything in ultra-fast RAM which you don't have a lot of. The machine may be choking. Do you have a lot of thorou...

Hopefully you can do better than MP3. Did you Save a Project after the show or Export a WAV or AIFF? The software compressors will not do miracles. If one voice is firm and powerful and the next very nearly can't be heard, then you may have no show. One Microphone shows of groups can be done, but it...

When we put our screening rooms on-line, we hired someone to come out with their fancy-pants meters, microphones, and analyzers. It wasn't that many thousands.

Koz

I wanna take out the background vocal from this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SapoWXsVeQw You should probably try to separate the vocals and the instruments before you go too much further. If that step fails, then you have no show no matter what else happens. Vocal Isolation is not a standard...

Some Macs have one connection that reverses between Headphone and Line-In. Those are really awkward because you can't listen and record at the same time.

Koz

I maybe running out of ways to help. The iMac at work has different inputs and outputs.
I'd be reading my instructions. Koz

A hardware meter like that seems to be nearly the exact analog meter that Radio Shack used to offer. The key is that "ansi calibration" thing. A software meter would be at the complete mercy of the iPod running it. It would be a very fancy Audacity with good graphics and fuzzy calibration....