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You can't split apart a mixed musical performance into individual instruments and voices. Once you smash everything together onto one track, that's the end of the story. If you recorded your performance as an overdubbing separate track, you can mix in any way you want, but if you did it as a live mi...

WAV will preserve the distortion in lossless quality, MP3 will make it worse. Don't record the drum set connected to the mic input unless you know it can be switched to line level input. The mic input will be adding unwanted low quality amplification, even if you can stop it actually going over 0 dB...

There isn't a PDF Manual, sorry. That's why it says Help > Manual (in web browser). The HTML Manual uses image maps (meaning that you click on different parts of the image to visit different links) which have proved a stumbling block to making a professional-looking ...

Well, after again downloading the manual, I opened Audacity, and from the help menu clicked on the manual, (as I already have Safari open anyway), and now it's opened the manual up in Firefox! What is going on? How many browsers need to open to just see the manual, ...

I've had same problem as you and recently connected my Blue Yeti throug powered usb hub but still had some notifiable high pitch noise. After this i did some research and it seems noise loudness depends from usb cable length. Here i've tested 3 usb cables, i'll attach recorded sound and frenque anal...

... the drums louder than the song? I adjusted the gain in all my covers so far to -20 +20, but I've been told that causes overloading damage. Please help! Here's an example of one of my covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td-fNMDwPYE

... the squeek, then Analyze -> Plot Spectrum and maybe you can see the frequency that needs to be filtered-out. It won't be perfect, but it might help. If the noise is louder than the speaking, compression may help a little. (Compression tends to make quiet parts louder and/or loud parts quieter.) ...

... mentioned that this is the first time thathey've heard of this issue. Does anyone have an solutions/suggestions or links to other threads? Any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated. Thanks! Kyle Luetters

... the most important take-away is that the GUI for effects need some re-thought. In the past there has been some support for a context specific Help button; this thread asks for a method of providing users with a choice of an advanced or basic GUI; there is also some desire by users to control ...

... is usually an indication that data is being dropped because some part of the system can't keep up. Reducing the load on the computer may help, particularly if the computer is not very powerful. What options do you have selected in the device toolbar ?