Audacity Forum

or the original recording was unbalanced or the pad is worn and not making solid contact with the edge of the tape or your sound card has imbalances in its channels or you twisted the knob on the player off of center or your players channels are not balanced or the source was off center to be artsyc...

rinter wrote:As the title says only my left input recieves signal but both outputs work when listening back. The recording is broken and distorted, is this because its trying to find both inputs when recording?

tell us what you are using and how it is connected.

... the recording always has a hiss/static/white noise in the background and the levels are very quiet. The mics have a battery powered condenser that switches on and off, but even when all mics are off, the hiss is present. ... I was using a Zoom H2 to record (USB connection) and didn't have this ...

I... so where does the time signal come from in the above set-ups, where the H2 is an interface, or only the Realtek is involved ? I cant believe, that the H2 as an audio interface would be THAT shitty , and the whole internet wouldn´t care exept for me... cause i didn´t find anything on that topic...

Thanks for your input - my feeling is that it should be eliminated, too - I guess I just needed validation. I just looked at the DAK item you mentioned - they show it being connected to the speaker out jack on the computer. Since the unit is an isolation transformer, I assume that it would be just ...

the settings are wrong, or the cables are wrong, or .....
now tell us ALL about your equipment and software and how its connected and all the options you have set and maybe we can help you better.

Let's say I walk into a large empty room with a recorder running at one end, stand in the location of a vocal performer who will arrive later and clap. Once. Now let's say the voice performer shows up -- by herself -- and starts singing. Using the clap, we can cancel out the room echoes, right? No ...

no
not really, but expensive gear and a top engineer can do some things
yes, but not going to do what you want that way using it

It is in most beginner books. I would call it multitracking which can have two senses in English usage. Either simultaneously or sequentially. But you should also find it listed under overdub or some other terms unique to a vendors DAW . You should also read about latency problems as they will impac...

Sometimes recordings do not sound like real life. That is why foley experts have jobs. Bacon sound frying is crinkling cellophane. Hoofbeats might be half coconut shells in the guys hands. If this is not a trick question you need to tell us more. The sound of falling off a cliff would be nothing. Pe...