Audacity Forum

I was getting an intermittent hollow, almost underwater, effect on the playback of everything I recorded, but resolved the problem by

1) Setting the Audio Host to: Windows WASAPI

2) Setting the recording device to: Speakers/Headphone

3) Setting the playback device to: Speakers/headphone

Resolved the problem by changing my default playback format from 24 bit 48000 Hz to 24 bit 192000 Hz.

I'm using Windows 7, Audacity 2.0

Everything I record has a hollow /underwater quality on play back and export. Initially this was not the case, but developed in the last year or so.

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