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mc ryan wrote:1 last thing do yu no how to seperate the vocal off a song cn you actually do that??

"separate" could mean either "remove" the vocals, or "isolate" the vocals (remove everything else except for vocals).
Both versions are discussed on this page: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Vocal_Removal

Vocal Removal is relatively easy provided that the original audio track meets certain conditions - namely that it is a stereo track and the vocals are dead centre in the mix with no stereo effects on the vocal and the remaining instruments are not dead centre in the stereo mix.

Vocal isolation is much more difficult and will usually produce fairly poor sound quality (if it works at all, which it may not)

I have it on good authority that neither the CIA or the FBI are not in the business of making Karaoke backing tracks.

no but the cia will isolate a voice
so it can reproduce it
and make a bogus recording
for disinformation purposes

Here's what I did, per the tutorial:

Go to Edit, in the drop down click Preferences, in the Audio I/O tab check both of the boxes at the bottom, the first one to hear the track while you record your voice, the second one to hear your voice over the track as you're recording.

The BIG problem I'm having with this is, you hear your voice about one beat after you start talking, there's a delay there that is REALLY DISTRACTING.

Having come from a radio background I HAVE to hear myself as I record over the music, so this delay is impossible to work with.

TerryW wrote:Here's what I did, per the tutorial:

Go to Edit, in the drop down click Preferences, in the Audio I/O tab check both of the boxes at the bottom, the first one to hear the track while you record your voice, the second one to hear your voice over the track as you're recording.

The BIG problem I'm having with this is, you hear your voice about one beat after you start talking, there's a delay there that is REALLY DISTRACTING.

Having come from a radio background I HAVE to hear myself as I record over the music, so this delay is impossible to work with.

Hi Terry,
If you look in Audacity "Help menu > About Audacity" it will tell you the version number.
If you can then post your question in the part of the forum that is relevant to your version of Audacity and your operating system someone may be able to offer appropriate advice.

General tips on how to get help:
1) be as specific as possible
2) include your version of Audacity (for example, 1.2.6).
3) include your operating system (for example, Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Intel Mac OS X 10.4).
4) include details of what you were trying to do, what steps led to the problem occurring, and details of any error messages.