Audacity Forum

I installed a $10 sound card I picked up on ebay and it works great!
Thanks!

You've got a feed-back loop going on.

Duh! I knew that. Happened to me before awhile ago.

Yes, turning off the pass through works, so at least I have a kludge to make it work.

In parallel, I'm buying a PCI sound card on ebay, will try that for the long term solution.

Thanks!

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