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That's coming along pretty good and ticks most of the boxes.
For audiobooks, reverb is generally not used because it quickly becomes tiresome to listen to. If you are using it for special effect then I would recommend using it sparingly, otherwise for an audiobook, not at all.

Main application window and Mixer Board sized and arranged side by side works well when there are not too many tracks:

Coconutsales wrote:Yep! I have tested it three times before writing up the guide,

I'm guessing that the computer needs to have some serious horsepower to handle that lot simultaneously. Just as a matter of interest (and may be useful for others that are trying to accomplish the same), what are the specs of your PC?

It doesn't distort or clip, but it does sound a little odd with the rest of the track In what way does it sound "a little odd"? Perhaps you could post a couple of short audio samples to demonstrate the issue - say 5 seconds of "normal" audio and a second file with 5 seconds of &...

Unless somebody corrects me, you'd be doing that in separate steps. Correction: The Mixer Board is just an "extension" of the track Gain controls http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audio_tracks.html#gain Adjusting track gain on playback is one of the very few things that you can do in r...

truckin72 wrote:Somebody please help!!!

Sorry, I can't help without your cooperation. If you don't follow advice or provide the information requested then there is nothing that we can do to help.

You will probably find the "Getting Started" tutorials helpful: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/quick_help.html
If you installed from the dmg, these tutorial will also be available via the Audacity "Help menu > Quick Help".

will the system automatically give me separate tracks to select No. or must I manually stop and start the copying between LP tracks. No. To make separate tracks, you can record one side of the record, pause, turn over the record and un-pause to complete the recording so that you have the entire alb...

See these links:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ch ... ation.html
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... lence.html

I'm about to normalize the peaks so they're at -3dB. Should I remove the DC offset? What impact would that have? "DC offset" is a fault. It is when the wiggly waveform is not centred around the "0.0" vertical position on the track. Enabling "DC offset correction" is ge...