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Thanks, that looks fine.

What make / model are your headphones?

Does your computer have separate sockets for headphones and microphone or are they combined in one socket?

Orpha wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:45 am

while using time shift two tracks moving at a time.

Ensure that "Sync Lock" is NOT enabled (bottom of the "Tracks" menu).

Please post your "Audio device info". Perhaps that will give a clue as to what is going on.
(See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/hel ... stics.html)

What happens if you record a 5 track project using only your guitar (plugged direct to computer)?

json2 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 25, 2021 7:38 am

I'm sorry if I did something wrong and next time I'll take care of it

No problem.

On a busy forum like this we receive a huge amount of spam, so we need to have a very strict policy to avoid being flooded.

llkkzey wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 25, 2021 5:01 am

The last time I restarted my Mac was a month ago

Try rebooting the computer and see if that helps.

Please try this as a test:
Make a recording with 5 tracks using your microphone only.

What happens?

overall Audacity folder is about 105 GB after only 15 songs. I don't think I want to be stuck with that taking up space in the long run. Do you have any advice on how to permanently move the folder to a separate hard drive without messing anything up? It's very rare that I save "projects"...

I save my audio files at 384,000 Hz. Why :shock: I have plenty of actual room on my hard drive An actual "hard disk drive" or a SSD? But, as I said, the file won't run very well right now. It is extremely slow upon opening and can't get through either a full play or a recording. There are...

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:21 am

Take off the dot txt.

Ideally, yes, but the "Nyquist Plug-in Installer" does that automatically.