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I have a USB turntable. I have an old calypso record that I was trying to record. When I play the song on the turntable I can hear the lead vocals just fine, but when I play it through Audacity, the lead vocals fade into the background and I can hear the background vocals as lead vocals. Anyone know what's going on?

You haven't really given us enough information for us to work on - but my guess is that you are getting a mono recording of only one (left or right) channel of the stereo.

Make sure that you have set up your Audacity preferences to record 2-Channel (stereo).

WC

I think the album is Mono itself. It doesn't say "Stereo" anywhere on the album, etc...Not sure whether that matters or not....
With some of the songs, the lead voice will come through fine, but on others it's in the background. I thought I had the Recording option on Stereo, but I'll try again.

have a look at this Wiki article, it may help you: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... turntables

WC

Thanks for the link- I found the answer! :

In Audacity, go to the Audio I/O tab of Preferences, select "USB Audio Codec" in the "Recording Device" dropdown, and choose "2 (Stereo)" in the dropdown under that (in Audacity 1.3.8 and later this will be in the "Devices" tab of Preferences)
Right-click over the speaker icon in the System Tray > Recording Devices. Alternatively, click Windows Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound, then the "Recording" tab (in "Classic View", there's a direct link to "Sound" in the Control Panel).
Right-click over USB Audio Codec and hit Properties
On the "Advanced" tab, in the "Default Format" section, change the dropdown menu to "2 channel 16 bit 44100 Hz"