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First of all, this isn’t ALL Audacity’s fault. If you thought that – like I did – you’d be wrong.
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It makes total sense that if you are recording a single voice into a single microphone plugged into a single microphone input on a recording interface, you’d choose “Mono.” Because, well, you’re recording a mono thing! There is a dropdown in Audacity’s toolbar where you choose between “1 (Mono) Recording Channel,” and “2 (Stereo) Recording Channels. Audacity has a weird conversion thing it does when it sees a stereo signal coming in, AND you choose the option (in Audacity) to record in mono. So Why Is This Happening?Īfter many days of searching for causes, I found the cause. The solutions and workarounds in this post work for both programs (and, I’m sure, any other program with this issue). [UPDATE: A very similar problem has been happening in Camtasia software for years and I only now realized it as the same basic cause. I’ve heard similar stories from others who are using interfaces with 2 mic inputs. This was a mystery to me, and only started happening when I updated Audacity to version 3.1. So this is a 10 dB difference! That means Audacity is lowering the level of the incoming signal by 10 dB. and the closer to zero you get, the louder it is. Remember in digital audio, things are measured in negative numbers. The Adobe Audition version’s average level was -20.47 LUFS. If you want the stats to compare, the Audacity version had an average level of -30.33 LUFS ( Loudness Unit Full Scale).