Audacity Forum

Latency is one reason analog audio equipment didn't die out immediately. "What do you mean there's a two second delay...?" You're never supposed to hear yourself except from the monitor point on the sound mixer. You can configure Audacity to let you listen to track one while you're creatin...

Audacity will only manage 16 tracks. Do you get a silent new track or no track?

We assume you mean 8 track reel to reel, not the 8-track I played in my '79 Cadillac.

Koz

Oh, if there's echoes or noise on one track and not the other, you're dead.

Koz

Is the same person talking on both? Not an easy way, no. Select some of the voice from the target recording and Analyze > Spectrum (change to Log Frequency, 8192) Pull the display as large as possible and screen capture the window. Now open up the second track and analyze that. Capture that window. ...

I think they're after the "Professional Audio Filter" that the video people use.

Koz

That tool is pretty universally recommended, however I use other Mac tools to do the same thing.

Koz

Click on the Project Sample Rate box at the lower left of the Audacity main window.

You know you're going to get significant quality degradation by changing those numbers down. It will sound softer and fuzzier without changing speed. 22050 will not do sparkling, crisp audio.

Koz

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Koz

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<<<thankfully it saved all of my settings>>> "Saving The Settings" usually creates more problems than it solves. "I reinstalled Audacity and all my original problems are still there!!" <<< (although there should be a clean uninstall option).>>> There sorta is. You can return Auda...