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Titanic wrote:by distortion, it's more like.. warped, like glitches in audio that alter it so it's hard to make out what sound is playing.

Generally distortion effects aren't designed to glitch : glitching is a seperate thing.
Glitching plugins are available ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cADUimf2dIc

I don't understand the distortion tool. IT HAD ONE JOB. And it does not distort stuff very well, it just makes it louder or softer while only slightly distorting it ,,, That is it's job: people want the distorted sound still to be recognizable /understandable, (rather than totally obliterated). How...

Titanic wrote:... I need a better crackling sound.

http://freesound.org/search/?q=static+television

Titanic wrote: I need a frequency of 9.1 kilohertz.

It's mainly ~1kHz & ~3kHz , but it's much more complicated than that ...

If used on stereo-tracks, Dynamic mirror uses an average of the two track's envelopes.
So for some applications* you will need to apply it to separately to each stereo track,
(* e.g. if you want a flat envelope ).

Some acting is required, see ... https://youtu.be/ztNBCEq8rxQ?t=7m40s

... I used the Sliding time/SPSR and Amplify(negative units) to warp the audio and break the track ... Your warp is a bit too much, IMO. Steve made a "TremVib.ny" plugin which does a more realistic cyclical warp effect, see ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=150194#p150194 ...

Perhaps I will get the ABBY ROAD PLUGIN. There's a free tape-simulator VST here ... https://klanghelm.com/contents/products/IVGI/IVGI.php ''IVGI 2'' saturation & distortion VST (free).gif The effect is subtle: it simulates the (slight) distortions which occur by introducing tape & vacuum-tu...

GregK wrote:I have MME, Windows Direct sound, and windows WASAPI. I have it set for MME

Try WASAPI instead.

GregK wrote:All I get when trying to record is a downward pointing red triangle and flat lines for the 2 channels'

Have some sound playing on the computer before you hit Audacity's record button.

However, when I export (have tried several different formats), the sounds that should be in the left channel only, also come across in the right channel. Not sure where to start troubleshooting this? Some computer sound-cards apply a "virtual surround-sound" effect : that mixes the left &...