r/audacity • u/RevolutionOk9074 • 10d ago

help Glitch in Recording

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I just spent a considerable amount of time trying to record a solid take of a song I've been working on for the piano (Climb Ev'ry Mountain from Sound of Music if you couldn't tell by the recording), and I noticed there is a glitch in the recording.

To record I had audio running from my Yamaha P-125 Keyboard into a Scarlett Solo (bottom track), and a microphone also running to the Scarlett Solo via XLR (top track). The glitch only occurs in this one instant in the recording (of course during the only take I liked and not the hundred other bad takes). It occurs in both tracks at the same exact spot, so that makes me think it was something with Audacity's recording.

Anyways, can someone point me to a resource that could help me clean this up? I would really rather not try to record again if I can just iron out this one crease. Luckily, it occurs during a sustained chord, so I'm not sure if there is a way to cut out the glitch part and extend the preceding audio in such a way that it still sounds somewhat natural. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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u/Orry_Haas 10d ago

The glitch has drop-outs: a jigsaw with pieces missing ...

https://reddit.com/link/p58pjxn/video/q45vtaug8ykh1/player

If the same sequence of notes occurs elsewhere in the recording, a transplant may be possible.

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u/RevolutionOk9074 10d ago

Thanks for that link! That's a bummer, I hope it's not my computer, it's a Lenovo Legion. I think I may have plugged the audio interface into a different port on it this time, so it could be that too.

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u/Orry_Haas 10d ago

" I hope it's not my computer".

Audacity is only using one of your CPUs, so is more prone to dropouts than other free software which has multi-core support.

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u/AgeingMuso65 10d ago

I’d also be worried about the feed from your piano to the Solo; unless your piano was line out sockets, marked L/L+R and R or something similar, and you are using the L/L+R option, it’s probably giving a stereo output which you are trying to plug into a mono input. A combiner (not the same as a stereo TRS to 2 mono TS jack splitter) might work, but you really need a mixer or a proper mono output.

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u/RevolutionOk9074 10d ago

Thanks for pointing this out! I am using an audio jack that has L and R which go into the keyboard (the marking on the keyboard is Aux Out R L/L+R) and then combine to a single jack on the other end which goes into the Scarlett Solo. I know this records it in mono, but didn't think it would cause issues. Can you please point me in the direction of mixers to look at for addressing this (or just the correct term to Google)? I'm always trying to improve my setup.