Audacity Forum

well, youre right, they are hard to find! but i opened up the sound menu and i saw a slide bar titled "microphone boost" it was set to +20 dB. i lowered to +10 dB and havent had a problem since... thanks!

i am using an hp G60 laptop with windows vista and a microphone purchased from radioshack. Here is my dilemma: i use audacity to record live performances of my band. before i got my laptop i used my parents' dell desktop computer with great results using the same microphone. the desktop computer was...

when i record anything, after a few seconds, the sound will start cutting in and out and then reduce to little to no volume. it still records, it just gets very quiet. it sounds like this would be an issue of being too loud, but even when i only talk into the mic, the same thing happens. im using wi...