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The short answer is that the damage is permanent and irreparable. The immediate problem for any echo cancellation / deconvolution technique is that you don't have either "dry signal alone" or "impulse response alone", you only have a mix of signal and echo and no good way to know...

Normally you should connect the mic before launching Audacity.
If Audacity is launched first you will need to "Rescan audio devices" (in the "Transport" menu).

Try the Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift effect http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sl ... shift.html

Gale Andrews wrote:Plus if you can't spend, but you can compile on Linux:
http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index. ... ntry214926.

Unfortunately that one is becoming very difficult to build due to the age of the libraries used.

Find the "help" folder in the Audacity installation folder, then find the "index.html" file within the help folder.
Double click on the "index.html" file.
Does it open in Firefox?

Now once Stereo Mix is active, is Audacity supposedly to be able to record either the system audio and the microphone audio, That will only work if the computer sound system is capable of: a) Recording Stereo Mix b) "Playing" the microphone through the sound card c) doing (a) and (b) at t...

Check that Firefox is set as the default application for html files.

The advantage of WAV files is that you get very good sound quality. It is also an extremely common format which virtually all media players support. The disadvantage is that the file size tends to be large. The advantage of MP3 is that the file size is much smaller, but there is always a little loss...

Audacity has a very powerful scripting language built in called Nyquist. Simple commands may be run from the Nyquist Prompt effect (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/nyquist_prompt.html) More complex Nyquist scripts may be made into plugins (http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Plug-ins_Refe...

Ensure that "Snap To" is set to "Off" in the selection toolbar http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/selection_toolbar.html#snap (if the cursor is snapping to time units, then it will probably not match up exactly with clip boundaries, so you will not get the yellow "snap&quo...