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... with the way audacity selects default audio sources. I assure you I've selected my good mic interface in audacity. It switches by itself. Please help. Thanks!

... hooked up properly. I am still fiddling with the audient ID 14 which I bought from Sweetwater because of their two-year free warranty and the help and advice I can expect from them in adding or upgrading later on – I am going to need all the help I can get as I move on with this project. All ...

Dear Koz – Thanks again for all your concern about this and the help. I finally checked out ACX.com in full and watched all the tutorials. I've got myself set up now with an audient ID 14 for a preamp and hooked that into my DAW. The tutorials for the thing ...

So do you think the Sample 2 recording was better, but how? The presenter was getting into the spirit of the thing and the quality was much more relaxed and natural. That and misusing some of the effects and corrections can make Essing worse. That clip appears to me slightly crisp but not sharp and...

Also, should I always be recording in mono? I thought stereo was better, but I'm honestly not sure why. You can do whichever you want. The quality of performance does not change. But there may be other considerations. I record in stereo and present stereo sound files to the video editors on the thi...

I don't know if it will help or not but I listed some of the plug-ins I use in my post "multitrack recording I made using audacity" on the same forum. Maybe they will work better for you. Also, I usually don't use compression ...

I'm on a MacBook Pro. Here is new recording - of my voice this time, called Sample 3 - trying to be as quiet as possible in the beginning and in the end. So do you think the Sample 2 recording was better, but how? The main big problem my untrained ear hears is the ssss sounds throughout Sample 2. I ...

... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html And if you do acquire a USB souncard this tutorial should help: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_with_usb_turntables.html bearing in mind that a "USB cassette deck" is just a cassette ...

... guitar track. In case I missed the boat here, you might try Effect > Echo on your voice only to give it a little concert hall effect. That might help it melt into the guitar. OK, here's one. Point to someone you're trying to sound like. Koz

Adrianna-1 is interesting. It has a lot of tiny problems, but I can make it into a good clear clip with a tweak here and there. But it, too has something wrong with the end. Do you hear that little "poop" at 18.1? It would be good to have a little more silence as well. You can post 20 seco...