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Thanks for the help everyone. I returned the second Yamaha MG10XU and purchased a Mackie FX12PRO and it works great. It was obviously the Yamaha. I think they have a problem with their USB driver but their customer service SUCKS for sure!

... I'm attaching two audio examples, with labels before and after to clarify the job i did with audacity. The original mix being made with the help of mixxx. I'm on linux - arch, manjaro edition, unstable repos, and the latest audacity 2.1. Thank you audacity for saving my day... :) https://clyp.it/rmdw3zb3 ...

... is stationary, moves away and moves closer) and plot spectrum. However, I am not sure thats the best way to analyze. Is there anyway that could help me analyze the frequency changes more accurately? Is there a way to increase sample rate? I am using a microphone that comes with my HTC headphone, ...

... plugged into a speaker output (recording live speeches) or stereo output (recording previous recordings on cassette tapes) (happens on both). Any help would be much appreciated. I have attached a short sample of the issue. Thanks Kyle

First, let me thank you again for all the help. Second, the editing you did on that sound clip seems to have gotten rid of most of bass speaker distortion, but the audio still sounds kind of strange. Hollow, sort of like I'm talking through a ...

Thanks for your support it's a great help for me.
I think that everything is said and this question can close.

... users who rightly complain about the length of the Effect Menu. I am +1 on fixing that properly, as I wrote. The Register Effects system does not help users who actually need to display hundreds of effects but cannot group them with any degree of flexibility (e.g. so that the Audacity compressor ...

... is getting it's power from the USB bus that causes the issue. An externally powered USB hub installed at the microphone end of the extension might help as well. There is something really odd about the rest of your background noise. If it is electronic in origin it doesn't match up with any mechanisms ...

Open Audacity and select "Help > Audio Device Info"
Copy and paste the full information from the "device info" into your reply.

... dictate the entire text all at one-- can't pause, and if I Stop, then it starts a whole new recording on top of my existing recording, which is no help at all. It is good if you update to 2.1.0 as Steve suggested, but Sound Activated Recording will behave the same in 2.1.0 - you cannot manually ...