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Was this a phone call? If it was you didn't record the far-side voice. You recorded the phone echo and noise cancellation errors. Unless the recording app says so specifically , you never get both sides. Just laying the phone on the table between several people speaking should come out way better th...

Reconstruct my project using the blocks in the Project Data folder? You can sometimes partially recover a raw recording that way, mono better than stereo, but you can't recover an edit. The blocks will be scrambled. When you switched projects during production, did you use different Project names? ...

I know you have the analog microphone connection to the mixer OK, but do you also use the Microphone USB connection to the computer? Is it required to power the microphone electronics? There's a super good chance you're recording directly from one of the microphones and not the mixer. Audacity will ...

it didn't pick up any fan noise.

It probably also didn't pick up any clicking, ticking, popping, gaps, skipping, volume problems, compression defects, echo suppression artifacts or noise reduction distortion.

Just a guess.

Koz

Don't know where to go from here?

You can start with that list above. Do you like to record internet shows or music?

Koz

This has been a standing unsolved problem. Somehow, Audacity is finding a "sneak" audio pathway and instead of just sending track one to your headphones as a backing track, it's recording track one in addition to the live performance. Make sure you have Playthrough turned off in Preference...

Wavestats doesn't seem to measure noise. Or did I miss something?

I ran both Wavestats and ACX Check on Steckler-Mastered and They gave me exactly the same Peak and RMS measurements.



Koz

What's the connection in the middle. SPDIF? If you listen to the player with headphones, does it die in the same places as the recording? DAT is famous for ratty digital transfer. Their solution is transfer analog by the headphone connection and a good stereo analog interface. So that may be your de...

Describe the machine. What kind of hard drive? Classic Spinning Metal or Solid State Dive? How large is the drive and how full is it? While Audacity is still open, Go > Computer > Macintosh HD > File > Get Info. Screen Shot 2019-03-16 at 18.35.14.png This is my SSD. It's about half full. Are you eve...

This isn't touching up. That's a badly damaged sound clip. You are in disaster recovery. It's wool-blanket muffled, but it also has rumble and thumping sound over the voice and sizzling essing. How did you make that? In detail. Is it a surveillance recording? Was the recorder in your pocket? I can a...