Audacity Forum

You may have two problems. You can steer which audio pathway to use with the Windows Control Panel. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel However you may have an audio mismatch on top of that. Your keyboard provides a powerful...

Once you get that to work. You should probably stop using Audacity 1.2. Modern Macs do not support 1.2 and your show could become damaged. Audacity 1.3.12 is current. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac You can install both versions, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not o...

<<<Use Audacity 1.3.12.>>> Well, yes, that, but I would be exporting to a "Safe" filename. No dates, No punctuation marks, no spaces. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, dash, and underscore. That's it. No other characters should be used in a filename. I don't use spaces, either. This t...

There are a number of ways to "shrink" a sound track. The obvious one is stop recording stereo and shift to mono. Boom, fifty percent reduction in information/data right there. You won't care about this one at all since your show is a single sound track. You need to make sure that the back...

You had two problems. As stated, modern Macs do not properly support Audacity 1.2. It's just two old to deal with modern operating system services and becomes unstable with no notice. Plugins are a sore spot for Audacity. There was one 1.3 version that would just go up in a ball of flame if you put ...

You should probably make sure that "web quality" doesn't also reduce the quality of the sound capture. Record both ways and listen on good quality headphones.

Koz

You just threw some mud in the game. Macs will not record live or downloading audio without some other provision like additional hardware or special purpose software. Either could easily be what's causing the problem.

Koz

When the grownups are faced with difficult capture problems, they resort to special purpose microphones like radio microphones and shotguns. Because these shoots are Very Important and the shows tend to have budgets, some of these solutions are expensive. http://www.coffeysound.com/Schoeps-CMIT-5U-S...

You missed a step in the middle. Are you trying to record a USB turntable or other USB device like a cassette player? Sometimes Windows tries to record from the player and mistakenly sends the show audio out there, too, instead of the speakers. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/inde...

Chris provides settings for threshold so you can choose the level that is intended to be and stay background. For example, below -30, take no action, and above that manage and compress the performance. That should give you loud, dense, matching performances and good low background room noises betwee...