Audacity Forum

... other tracks when it mixes and renders such a file. I wind up with basically just the narration track There is a Mixing Tutorial that might help. (It's about mixing dialog and music but the concepts should work.) There seems to be a distinct difference in the room tone or the echo effect ...

... computer is reasonably modern / powerful, the Banana route with USB mics will be a lot less costly, if you can get it to work. I'm not able to help you with Banana as I've never used it, and I don't use Windows. Fortunately the documentation for Banana looks pretty good. Plenty for you to read ...

... to work. Will I need to buy an external mixer to solve this problem, or is there a simpler solution I'm not seeing? Thank you in advance for your help!

The Audacity number is 2.1.2
My mic is plugged into a Presonus audio box, then I have Symetrix, into a Dell desktop- with Microsoft Edge.
I hope that helps?
I appreciate your help getting this fixed.
Bill

I've tried all these things, and they certainly help. What I'm looking for is an excuse to dump this ancient PC running Windows 7 and buy a new machine that has such whizzy graphics that the problem goes away.

... Loopback" and sound system WASAPI registration part but not record anything, in short, flat encephalogram. Where am I wrong? Thanks for the help

Hello,
With Audacity 2.x, I have my settings for 2 stereo recording. One waveform (the top) is normal, yet the bottom waveform is flat. When you listen to the recording, it only comes through on one side of the headset.
How do I fix this?
I appreciate your help
William Turner

Greetings...new to this forum and looking for help for my set up. New Lenovo all-in-one computer (windows 10) trying to record line in from a mixer at my church. We have mics running to the mixer and then into the computer via 1/8 jack on line in ...

... have used different combinations trying to have some sound playing the LP. The moderators on a mac forum I use do not have a solution. Can anyone help? botise.

... have an iPhone you can get a stereo-directional microphone . (There is lots of "audio stuff" for the iPhone/iOS.) Directional mics will help to minimize audience noise and a pair set-up for stereo will allow you to get closer to the band while still getting a wide-enough angle to pick-up ...