Audacity Forum

Load the song. Home the cursor. Generate > Silence. Choose the amount.

Koz

I can tell you that probably nobody can help you. Audacity has a Vocal Removal tool that does probably about what you just did. There are other packaged tools that try to remove the vocals, too, but there are a ton of reasons for this not to work. If your show is in mono -- even if there are two tra...

Click drag a portion of the song. Press and hold the keyboard Control key and tap the E key. Release everything. That should zoom into the work. The other Control codes work the same way. They are keyboard shortcuts and do not always show up in menus.

Koz

Select the track > Effect > Amplify. Choose a new value. If left to itself, Amplify will try to maximize the volume of the work.

Koz

Click the first track, shift-click the second?

Koz

One more. Open the music in Audacity > File > Open Metadata Editor.

Koz

The "Open With" preference is fluffy and it can be changed. Right-Click open the file in QuickTime Player. Command-I the INFO panel. What does that say? If that says MP3 file, then you're golden. "MP3" is a shortcut name. The real name is MPEG1, Layer 3. All Mac players and servi...

I think the most valuable pathway to making recordings is to go up through the junk. Buy the $29 USD equipment and find out the shortcomings. Then resolve them. I don't think you learn nearly as much plunking down in front of a perfect system and have it work first time out -- not that anyone is goi...

Any way to get a picture of you playing and the proper location of the microphone? You'll probably have to wear clothes for that.

Koz

Oh, and do make sure your Windows Control Panels are set correctly, although if other programs work, that's not likely to be wrong.

Koz