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Hey there, Most singers will use a pop screen to stop their "P's" and "B's" from making an abrupt loud noise in the mic and to stop your "S's" from sounding like a snake hissing. It will to some extend reduce the breathing but you will still get some. the microphone would not be doing its job if it ...

HI all, I have previously been doing all my recording through the sound card that came with my PC but it has bad latency problems so i bought the behringer uca202 as i had heard favourable reports about it. So far i have been dissapointed as it seems to have numerous flaws, The biggest being that it...

Hi there 87th

Have a read of this similar post, it should help you out

http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1967

good luck

Skey, i dont think you can record onto an existing track. Depending on what you are trying to do you can get around it numerous ways. If you want to record something before or after what you already have then just record in on a different track then allign it where you want with the time shift tool ...

Try using the time shift tool to re-allign your tracks. you can find this in the top left of the tool bar and it looks like <->. It helps to zoom in so you can shift the track by very small amounts and get it right in the right spot. If you have played to a click track this makes it easier to allign...

As Steve said, you will need to get some more equipment in order to get a good sound into your computer. The best way is to purchase a small mixing desk for example http://www.htfr.com/more-info/MR205734 (I just picked this at random to help you understand there are lots to choose from) If your amp ...

answer here

http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=reco ... ulti-track

Lots of other simple help too!!

Use a good micrphone, dont use crappy $40 thing that is really a toy. invest in something decent. You will have to establish what eq's sound best for the singer voice,Its different for everyone .You want the persons voice to sound natural as you hear it in the real world so dont go cranking up frequ...

When you say you "saved as Mp3 or wav" do you mean you exported it? you need to save it as an audacity file first then export it (if you have not allready done this), if you export before you save then you are exporting the original saved version , ie the one at 20% so then yes you would be losing y...

I forgot to say have you checked the input level slider on the mixer toolbar http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recording_levels To adjust the input level itself, you use the right-hand slider (by the microphone symbol) on the Mixer Toolbar: if you havent tried this it should fix your prob...