Audacity Forum

Update: I rebooted the Mac and the problem, er, went away.

It takes a lot to make me reboot the Mac, but on this occasion it was definitely worth it. Of course, I still don't know what was causing the problem, but at least now I know a way to fix it.

I've upgraded the H2 firmware. Having done that, I tried quitting everything else, going into Audacity, connecting up the H2 and recording a single track, then overdubbing a second track. The results are even worse! The first track I recorded is here (17 seconds). As you can hear, there's a distinct...

No. It only seems to happen after I've already been using Audacity, but I have tried starting a new project and recording the first track after it's started; it still happens on the new track. On the other hand, when I tried this I did have a project with five or six tracks open in another window, s...

It's just a bit weird that what triggers it seems to be using the H2 over USB successfully. I get one go, and then it's square waveforms and buzzing. I've never had the problem using the H2 standalone. I don't think it's the gain switch - I toggle between M and H quite frequently, and it doesn't hav...

I use Audacity (on OS X) with a Zoom H2 digital recorder, sometimes stand-alone but usually hooked up to the Mac and used as a microphone, enabling me to overdub existing tracks. I've been recording fairly regularly for the last year without problems. But back in January I started getting some weird...