removal of a double or echo track and diagnosis of problem

[haw3jd]

I take Skype guitar lessons. I have had this trouble a few times where the teacher is recorded twice but I, the student, am only recorded once (proper). As to the double recordings -one occurs right after the other (about one full second apart) making an echo effect and making it hard to hear what is being played and hard to see what is being played because of the dual nature of the recording. I am not sure why it does that. It does not do it each lesson.

But in any event is it possible to remove one of the two recorded tracks of the teacher? If so, how do I remove the one track that does NOT have the one recording of me, the student. Also does anyone have any idea how this happens? I am not restarting the recording during the hour lesson. I did do that one time and so that was on me, but since then I have not. I did not change the settings from the last time when it worked perfectly for the whole hour. About to pull my hair out because if I cannot fix these several lessons that are double recorded of the teacher, then I have wasted that money for those lessons. Thanks in advance for any help!

[lata]

Hi
And welcome to the forums

I doubt that Video Studio can do that, expensive audio software would be required and even so difficult to do, I would have thought.
You could try Audacity a free audio editor, maybe filter out one stream, but I have my doubts?

How are you recording your video, make sure you are not recording Speakers,
Do you use headphones?

I have used Skype in the past to have an audio feedback, (sometimes) so I could hear my own voice as an echo, I never found out which PC was causing the problem, or indeed if it’s a Skype issue.
I suspected the other pc had its speakers turned on so I was picking up that pc’s speakers via the mic?

Maybe others on the forums have ideas.

[RobertOZ]

Hi Trevor,

I have the same issue with Skype, not every time, but frequent enough to become very annoying, the feedback echo of my own voice, I am sure that the issue is with Skype, same problem on 3 different computers, yet nothing mentioned about the issue on the Skype forums

[asik1]

Have you looked here?

[lata]

Hi

Thanks Robert, very interesting

Asik

Yes I have in the past tried many things to cure this anomaly, I had suspected my mates pc but with Roberts comments it does seem to be a Skype issue.

[haw3jd]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I will try what has been suggested. What is curious is that the last time I did it before having the problem it worked perfectly and yet I did not change any settings. Is there anything that my teacher could be doing (unintentionally of course)hat would affect my recording? My teacher also suggested using headphones next time so thanks for that "lata" I do run my guitar through my portable speakers through the mic jack, but I did that before when it worked properly. I can certainly try taking the guitar out and running it through small practice amp. The irony is the reason I ran the guitar through the speakers was because my Amplitube software would not work with Skype (kept hiccuping), seems that Skype is the common denominator, but my teacher has 20 or 30 students that use Skype with no problem! Very frustrating. I do have Audacity so I will try that. I will also check the microphone properties as suggested. Thanks. Ad