Audacity Forum

Hi I have a very important question that has been bugging me.
I couldn't figure it out myself and so I decided to register and ask to see if anyone that knows
this program better can please help??
When I open audacity and try recording,, it records the track the right way it should,
but it doubles it! So instead of one bar there is two exactly the same. The problem with this this, is that when i record
it doubles my sound because it's recording double and it messes up my vocals when I sing because It makes my voice sound with an echo if i try recording under it, because there is so many doubles. Every single time I start a new track it records twice I don't know how to get it so it can be just one bar instead of two. PLEASE HELP!!!!!! D=
i added a picture so you can see what i mean.

Windows, right?

You may be fighting the Mix-Out problem. When you record from the internet, you need to activate Mix-Out to properly manage the sound pathways. This is exactly what you don't want to do if your intent is to record a real local microphone with you singing or playing. If you perform into a microphone with Mix-Out running, you can easily get multiple recordings at the same time or other damage or distortion. You turn this on and off in the Windows Control Panel.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

You can get feedback problems similar to this by running your computer speakers and the microphone at the same time. Always wear headphones when recording.

Koz

giselle19 wrote:Hi I have a very important question that has been bugging me.
I couldn't figure it out myself and so I decided to register and ask to see if anyone that knows
this program better can please help??
When I open audacity and try recording,, it records the track the right way it should,
but it doubles it! So instead of one bar there is two exactly the same. The problem with this this, is that when i record
it doubles my sound because it's recording double and it messes up my vocals when I sing because It makes my voice sound with an echo if i try recording under it, because there is so many doubles. Every single time I start a new track it records twice I don't know how to get it so it can be just one bar instead of two. PLEASE HELP!!!!!! D=
i added a picture so you can see what i mean.

i am new to this
but i think you have two different problems

it certainly appears that the default is to record stereo
so you should get two tracks
you can monofy them later if needed

but the echo or doubling of sound on one track is something else
sounds like you are replaying something while recording over it and there is a delay that causes the "echo"

are you trying to play somethign and record new sound at the same time??

pls give very detailed description of exactly how you are doing this
it is hard to help when we have to guess andor make assumptions

what are you recording?
from where?
how ?
settings?
what else is happening ??
anything that could affect the result

<<<you can monofy them later if needed>>>

That's good. Can I use that?

Koz

Thanks for the help! and well no i don't necessarily mean to play anything while I record. What is on there in the picture, is just the plain beat to a song that I uploaded onto audacity. So I have not recorded nothing yet.I uploaded it so I can record with it. Im trying to record a song of me singing. So either way when i try to record, it will double the bars again! every single time it doubles them. and yes it makes lots of echo and records over everything. when I record i mute all that has been recorded so there wont be any echo but as im recording its echoing itself. Do you know what i mean?? so at the same time i speak it just doubles automatically.the same thing just doubled. I dont know how to get rid of this =( its so frustrating I just want one bar not two. =( thats all

This isn't an Audacity problem. Audacity is a slave to your Windows machine and that's where the problem is. You need to go into your Windows Control Panels and stop recording Mix-Out, What-U-Hear, or whatever your computer calls it. That's the setting that's giving you multiple recording pathways and increased volume.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz

Thank you so much!!!! I fixed my problem. Although the bars are still doubled, the sound isn't. =)
What I did was I added headphones as I recorded, which decreased the sound, and I can hear the beat through the head phones as i record instead of hearing it through the same speakers, my voice was coming out of. Thank you for the help. I just have a small problem though, I finished recording my song, and I exported it. Then I tried adding it to my myspace music page and it says the file is too large! it is 39 point something mb, and it has to be at least 6 to upload. is there anyway i can change the file size?? it is only a three minute long song. I do not know how to fix it. please help =(

Export it as an MP3 file. You will need to install "Lame" in order to do that. See here: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=inst ... m=lame-mp3

kozikowski wrote:<<<you can monofy them later if needed>>>

That's good. Can I use that?

Koz

of course

okay so I download "lame" and then just export it how i would regularly export it?