Audacity Forum

Well, I bought a 5m USB lead, but was still getting loads of noise when I plugged it into my PC, even when I lead the cable out into the next room. So I thought I'd try my acoustically quieter Win2000 laptop. No dice once again, so I fiddled around for a while and finally found an option to use inpu...

Hi Steve - thanks for your comments too. I understand about the s/n ratio point. I'll use the mic with confidence now, and won't worry about possible faults. Now I need to investigate the question of whether one can buy seriously long USB cables so that I can place the mic far from the hum and hiss ...

Thanks Koz!

Gav

I've got the 440, and Audacity is set to 32-bits already. If that's all we can do, I guess we've done what we can and we'll simply amplify it. I wonder whether noise will be a problem, but I guess it won't be. We'll see. It sounds nice, I must say, if it does look rather quiet on-screen. Has anyone ...

I've just bought a t bone USB mic but I'm having trouble getting much amplitude from it. I've turned up the Windows mixer gadget to max, and toggled the +20dB button, but still there's not enough signal to be any real use. Are there any other volume controls I can go to to boost the signal please, o...