Newbie recording - clicks and faint recordings

Hi Folks

I am using a Macbook pro and trying to record and audio interview from the internet. It doesn’t seem to record very loudly (barely audible) and when I turn up the sliders I get a lot of screeching feedback. I have tried just about every setting available to my untrained eye/brain, but nothing makes any difference. I tried this a few months back and just gave up …am giving it another chance.

It worked fine on my PC

Thanks so much

JBatt

You’re probably recording the sound coming from the speakers using the built-in microphone. Macs have no built-in ability to record “what you hear”.

See this page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Recording_Computer_Playback_on_Mac

– Bill