Audacity Forum

Hahaha wow you guys were completely right. I thought that just because I'd plugged in my USB mic that it would become the default mic as long as it stayed plugged in. It had been recording with the built-in mic on my laptop the whole time, which was set to "reduce the volume of other sounds by 80%,"...

Thanks for getting back so quickly. I did as you said, but there were no active enhancements. I also tried reducing the input level, since I thought that maybe the program was compensating for the level being too high, but that did not work either. Any other suggestions?

I have been trying to record my guitar into Audacity, but after only a few seconds of recording, during which time the audio sounds fine, the quality and sound level steadily degrades. I am using a high quality USB microphone, a Blue Yeti, plugged into an HP laptop. I have tried different guitar amp...