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The instructions in that article seem to be fairly straightforward. What part are you having trouble with?

kozikowski wrote:The ACX videos recommend, very strongly, to record to a fast external drive.

That is in part dependent on the recording software. Several of the ACX videos use ProTools. To get ProTools to record without drop-outs will often require as second, fast hard drive (separate from the system drive).

To record the sound that is playing through the speakers, set the recording input to record from the speakers (loopback) in the device toolbar like this:

NTL2009 wrote: Maybe I've been lucky? I'd be curious if others have seen problems with spinning drives

I've had no problems using spinning drives, even for quite large multi-track projects (30+ tracks).

A slightly different effect that produce quite interesting voice timbre is to record yourself talking very slowly and then use the "Change Speed" effect. It takes a bit of practice to get the slow talking right, but this techniques was used in many old classics such as Pinky and Perky.

You can also slide the audio tracks left/right using the Time Shift tool.

Please see the pink box above and provide the required information. About your setup: Also, what sort of headphones? Are they USB headphones or do they plug into your sound card? Is your computer a laptop computer? Are you using the built-in sound card or an external (USB) sound card? Are you wantin...

As it says in the first link of my previous reply:
http://audacityteam.org/about/license

License
Audacity is free software. You may use it for any personal, commercial or educational purpose, including installing it on as many different computers as you wish

What is the full length of the project that you are trying to export?
Where are you trying to export it to? (what is the full file name including the full "path"?)
How much space is available in the location where you are trying to export it?

Audacity is multi-language. The language is automatically set to match the system language of the computer that it is running on, but you can override that and manually set the language that you require. See here for instructions: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/languages.html The manual that i...