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this is a whole new ball of wax!

Recording is a decades old ball of wax. What's new is doing it in your kitchen with no prior experience.

Koz

I haven't noticed any default selection options within each effect box Many do because we're not the only people to have this problem. The Manual (instructions) has illustrations of the tools at default settings. https://manual.audacityteam.org/ See Index on the left of that page. Depending on the ...

I used an audio engineer for them.

Who prepared the work for publication? Did your studio take care of that? Typically, the recording standards are slightly different from the submission standards. Somebody has to make up the difference before submission.

Koz

I used an audio engineer for them. So that's your desperation method. That puts you miles ahead of people staring at their brand new microphone never having recorded a thing in their lives. That also satisfies half of the ACX submission testing, Human Quality Control. That's the theatrical test. Th...

You were fine until you said "MIDI." That's not Audaity's strong suit. If you open the Steinberg stereo, record stereo and plug a separate microphone into left and right, you should be able to record both microphones separately—as long as they're not in the same room. Unless you're in a ve...

I dunno if the phantom-power is on or off in this picture ] There's usually a light somewhere. https://m-audio.com/m-tracks/2x2 Yes. There's a power light and a 48volt light. You should be able to get the orange sound meter light to come on with speech. That's slightly high for normal announcing, b...

de-plosive Plosives are "P Popping." http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/PPopping.mp3 Chase is way too close to his microphone and all his "P" sounds are emphasized and sound thumpy. You can cure that with a pop and blast filter and proper spacing. No post-production needed. ht...

Your post was edited to be more family friendly. How can I make sure this never happens again? Audacity doesn't apply effects or corrections when it records. What other audio applications do you use? Skype is famous for changing your computer sound settings "in the background" without tell...

The setting I wrongly used "increase incoming call volume".

Don't do that next time.

The call is lost. Select View > Show Clipping. All the areas in red are permanently damaged.



Koz

Do you use Skype or other chat or conference application?

Games?

Koz