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I think you're stuck.

We can't get rid of echoes and "big room" sound, especially with music. We can't split a mixed performance into individual voices, instruments and sounds so you can deal with one without messing with the others.

Field recording is rough to do.

Koz

I know it's popular to think you have to go the full-on Glen Glenn Sound Studios for these things, but I think you can do very well with Extras > Voice Memo on your iPhone. Do this by yourself a couple of times to make sure you know which one of the fourteen microphones the app is going to use. Then...

I bet it's two two-tracks. That's very common in sound mixers. The ads all proclaim multi-channels, but it falls apart when you try to use it. As above, Audacity doesn't easily support ASIO, so you can't use that as a get-out-of-jail card. In the Citation Needed Youtube show, there are four people a...

Break the hard connection between the stand and the floor. I've done this. A 30" square of 1/2" plywood is part of a microphone system. I sat it on several layers of Duvetyne (Heavy Felt) and parked the whole thing in the middle of a conference room table. I got all the conversations arou...

That should help a little on sound bouncing back from the wood. Your sound problems are not going to come from the wood, at least not the wood holding the microphones up. You have poor isolation between the microphones and the mount currently sitting on the floor. If you clamp the assembly to a sto...

One more. Start a recording with everything connected and adjusted as normal. Announce you're going to turn all the Solo knobs all the way down, and then do it. Post it.

This is me doing situational troubleshooting—blind—across multiple timezones. Yes! [pumping fist].

Koz

Thank you for the clip. I think I can say it's not "normal" Yeti curse. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/USBMicrophoneWhineClip.mp3 But I think the two noises are related. I think either the USB cable or the USB connection itself is damaged. You have symptoms of USB damage, analog micr...

One more. Overdubbing, assuming a live microphone, requires headphones. It's not optional. If you try to use speakers in the studio, the backing track will leak into the live performance.

Koz

I recorded a track And when you recorded the track from the internet, you set up for special conditions and settings. Those settings are incompatible with overdubbing. Are you using a microphone? Audacity needs to be recording from a real physical thing like your microphone, not a magic software &q...

Post some of the noise. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887 USB interface noise is not that unusual, but it usually confines itself to "affordable" USB microphones with little or no filtering for the five volt battery signal coming up the USB wires. It's called Mo...