Audacity Forum

I started this response three times.

How do you have those devices connected—in detail? I don't think I see any way for that combination to do what you want, but maybe I'm making the wrong assumptions.

Is the goal to do overdubbing? Play live music to an old backing track?

Koz

Sometimes you can use direction clues if the original is a proper stereo track (two blue waves). You might try Effect > Vocal Reduction and Isolation.

Even though it's a modern and not legacy effect, don't bet the farm on musically pleasing results.

Koz

Audacity can't split a mixed performance into individual voices, instruments and sounds, if that's what you're asking. You can recognize the difference between these things because you live in the metaphor world where you can recognize performances based on past experience. Audacity has to do it by ...

Two blue waves? Does it say Stereo on the left panel?


Or do you have two completely different blue waves?

Koz

Does anyone use audacity to make overdubs and have you experienced this issue? Do you like to or have you ever recorded internet sound or recorded sound playing on the computer? The settings you had to change to do that are the ones causing troubles. As above, make sure your recording device is a r...

You can hear more AC noise than people's voice. That's usually the kiss of death. Effect > Noise Reduction depends on a pre-conditioning profile step where you let it "sniff" a little pure air conditioning noise with no voices. If you can't tell where the voices are, then you can't do tha...

can I minimize the AC noise That's a little too open-ended. What's the show? Are you recording an audiobook? Podcast? Musical performance? The tools affect everything. There is no just take out the air conditioning. The trick is to reduce the noise without affecting the show too much. There are som...

My 160GB iPod classic is almost full and the newer solid-state versions won't hold all of my music.

Correct. Even the special 128 iPod won't do it.

Koz

even though the filename doesn't give me a clue It's not unusual for large corporations to train temporary workers for when the big guns go on vacation. These are Vacation Relief workers, place holders to keep everything just running—treading water—until the real developers, programmers and coders ...

Also started using talkspeech plugin

From where?

As above, it rings alarm bells when somebody arrives on the forum with a long list of effects and filters and never mentions the goal.

Koz