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Audacity doesn't apply any effects in real-time.

See Audacity's tracks menu , choose "stereo track to mono".

If the computer does not have "line-in" socket(s) , you'll need a gadget which plugs into the USB socket, the gadget has "line-in" sockets on it, e.g. ... http://wiki.audacityteam.org/w/images/6/6b/UCA202.jpg http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Overdubbing_with_a_Behringer%C2%AE_UC...

BANHAMMERxXx wrote:... audio is recorded in the background ...

If you go to Windows recording devices you can disable the recording devices you don't want ,
e.g. disable the computer's in-built microphone.
[ Note: the sounds the computer makes is called "Stereo mix" in recording devices ].

What the heck happened? Did I click a button by mistake? For some reason, the audio stream became "de-synchronised". Rather than the sound system delivering a continuous stream of audio data, there are small gaps in the audio stream, which are producing the "distortion" that you...

kozikowski wrote:My correction sucked ...

Not too far off ...

i have a youtube song that looks like 2 identical stereo tracks. If they are exactly identical then they will cancel-out ( anti-phase ) if you split the pair into two mono tracks , then invert one of the tracks. If the result is silence, (perfect cancellation), then what you've got is a dual- mono ...

My only solution right now is to include a snippet of the dropped-call-reconnect process so the listener will have a reference for the change in tone. But I'm hoping someone here will have a better idea for balancing the tone of the interviewee's voice. It is possible to match the equalization, but...

Raven16 wrote: I have a very poor audio recording (spoken) that I have to salvage and transcribe ...

It is possible to remove some of the hiss , but that does not improve the intelligibility ... if you resample the recording down to 8000Hz that removes a lot of hiss.

Manfred Gr wrote:...wish I could post the sound ...

For instructions on "How to post an audio sample" in this forum, see ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=72887