Hello, I am using Audacity for a desktop PC (version 2.4.2) and would be enormously grateful for any help.
I have used the programme on my prev Win7 machine for many years but have encountered a new issue.
For my podcast I lay down a music track then my voice recordings in between tracks. The Win10 version defaults to recording new voice tracks along the same track as the music which isn’t ideal as I cant layer them as easily. I have changed this in preferences to always record as a new track, which it now does. However, it gives me a completely different voice! Darth Vader deep on helium high! Can anyone suggest a solution to this at all? Thank you very much.
One of the first steps in the overdubbing instructions is to make sure you can make a plain, pure, simple recording. If you can’t, you need to fix that first. There’s nothing like trying to cure a simple problem in the blizzard of custom application settings which I think is what you’re doing now.
Audacity does not apply effects, filters, or corrections during recording. It’s a popular feature request, but would be a complete nightmare in practice. So unless your microphone system is adding effects (always a possibility), the only thing left is Windows Enhancements.
Nobody wrote you can’t have other applications messing with you. Zoom, Skype and other chat programs all apply effects to the microphone. It’s a terrible idea to leave any of those active while you’re trying to record a performance.
Missed one. While you’re live recording/overdubbing with a microphone, you must wear headphones. No option.
Audacity overdubs by running live, real-time playback and live, real-time recording and any leakage between those two is pure evil. Among other things, because of the gymnastics Audacity has to do to make everything come out right, it’s very difficult to sort what happened wrong by listening to it later.
Thank you DVD Doug and thank you Koz, really appreciate you both commenting to help.
I accessed the options in Windows sound as described, it already stated Enhancements was disabled, however I clicked the disable box anyway for good measure. This was done against the ‘Speakers’ option which relates to my Yeti microphone.
Have just done a podcast and it repeated the effect sadly. At one point I recorded my voice 4 times from the same point, it did it on the first and third occasions and didn’t on the 2nd and fourth!
I am not attempting to use any sound effects, in fact given this is a brand new PC and aside from the antivirus Audacity is the only thing Ive downloaded, so should all be pretty clean in theory.
That’s a sampling error. The first part is 10% slow.
Here, I corrected it.
You can try correcting this with Effect > Change Pitch, but that is much more likely to damage the sound quality.
Why is this happening? Ummmm. Are you sloshing back and forth between CD and Video sampling? 44100 digital sampling rate and 48000 sampling rate? Is this a video show? You should stay in one rate or the other. Stuff you got from video is likely at 48000, whereas something you fresh-recorded may be at 44100, Audacity default.
I re-recorded your piece at 48000 and then played it at 44100. Sounds like your error, doesn’t it?
Ah the plot thickens! Thank you so much for replying once again and all your work. The second sound clip definitely replicates the sound pretty much exactly.
So the podcast is audio only. However the tracks are ripped from either soundcloud or youtube. The ones from youtube coming in at different rate I guess is the fundamental nature of the problem.
I pulled up the Change pitch option but it looks a little different to what you have pictured and I couldnt get it to sound any different, I dont really know what Im doing is the reason for that Im afraid.
I suppose what I need is an option that fixes my voice recordings at a certain pitch irrespective of the music files that are dragged in. Or do I need to make sure I somehow change my audio tracks digital sampling rate so they are all at 44100 or 48000?
Im sorry to show what an utter layman I am, please forgive me Im desperately trying to understand this!
