Audacity Forum

Audacity can't easily split a mixed performance into individual voices, instruments, or sounds. We can't isolate the cellos in the orchestra, split the tenors in a barbershop quartet, or remove explosions from a narration. If anybody could easily and reliably do that, there would be no need for the ...

Gentle global noise increase should not be this hard. Make sure you have a protection copy of the performance. Generate > Brownian Noise > .0004 > The same duration as the show > OK. Screen Shot 2021-03-18 at 2.54.37 AM.png That gives a noise performance of -78dB... Screen Shot 2021-03-18 at 2.52.52...

This might be a good time to examine some of the sync tricks. Instead of diving right into the drum or backing track, record a lead-in. "One and Two and Three and Clap!" You recite along with the words and clap exactly in time with the clap in the track. This will make it a lot easier to l...

Blindly putting the puzzle pieces together: The artist has Skype or Zoom running in the background of their machine and their voice is going through Zoom processing. As you pointed out, it sounds OK, but just won't pass technical tests.

Koz

I edit the audio in Zoom recordings What does that mean? You're not in Audacity? And that was from mafg1953 not mkagle who posted the problem. @mkagle how are the performance artists getting the work to you? File posting service such as Drop Box? Are they WAV files? Is this the first time this arti...

You can do Simple Overdubbing as I just posted a second ago to someone with similar problems. You can play to the backing track, you just won't hear yourself. That's what she's doing. The backing track is in her left muff and her live voice is in her right ear. HalfHeadphones.png In your case, you c...

You can do Simple Overdubbing, where you hear the backing track but not yourself. That's what she's doing. She's only wearing one of her headphone muffs so she can hear herself in her right ear. HalfHeadphones.png She's part of a multi-city mixdown, but still, she's overdubbing to a backing track an...

This is from a small Mackie mixer (profx6v3). It does have the connections for mixing to headphones.


Koz

You're right. According to the User Manual (page-8) the TO PHONES button is just so you can hear if the recording is OK. It's not part of the production process.

You can't use the computer's headphones for perfect overdubbing (hear both you and the backing track) so you're stuck.

Koz

I can do this by pressing the "to main mix" button on the Q502,

Isn't that what the To Phones button is for? Mixes the mixer show with the USB return.

Koz