Audacity Forum

... 4 of which are silence but channels 4 and 6 have the audio assigned from the channel mapper during export. What am I doing wrong? Hope you can help.

... find it to be well suited for audio use. Perhaps it is because Puppy is so lightweight that it does not have "optional" packages that help with efficient audio streams. I subsequently switched by old and under powered computer to Debian with Xfce and Jack, which then handled audio ...

You should try another test without the foam stocking over the microphone. I think part of my correction was to make the foam go away. You should be doing that.
Koz

Am I going the right direction? The first five seconds are plain you and everything after that is corrected.
Koz

The background is suspiciously quiet. Did you put a noise gate on the sound before you posted it?
Koz

... beginner, and 2: You're already doing a bunch of the stuff we were going to recommend anyway. We warn you that when you post like this, Do Not Help Us! This needs to be a clean shoot with no effects, filters or processing. Nothing like trying to take your effects out before we put ours in. ...

I'm using an Apogee Duet 2 and I have selected the device in preferences but now I can't get the sound to register in Audacity. When I click record and play into the mic, no sound is picked up.

Can someone help me?

... the smallest default amplification of both files, go back and re-run Effect -> Amplify , applying that smaller gain to both files. It will also help you have original uncompressed files, so you can apply ReplayGain (or WAVEgain) before MP3 compression. MP3gain works only in 1.5dB steps (due ...

Can someone help me? I can't get my Duet 2 to show up when I look up devices for my projects. Is it not compatible with Audacity?

... since the person doing this prior to me used Audacity and I figured that would just be simpler, but it turned out not to be. Thanks for all your help. I'm kind of new to working with DAWs, so I'm sure I'll be lurking around the forums again!