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Hi Trebor - I've attached a clip (I hope) - it is 7s. The profile contains a couple of seconds of only the hiss from the bat detector. I tried the noise reduction feature using a clip from the hiss, but it changed the character of the bat calls too much I think. Any other suggestions would be good. ...

I'm not sure what I did there - I hadn't got very far down your list Gale; perhaps the transport > rescan audio devices, anyway it is working i.e. I can hear it on my laptop. I did not alter anything else. The main thing that it works. The quality is awful but one of the challenges of the heterodyne...

Thanks, I can't hear it on my laptop - audacity is open and I'm trying play the track I've recorded. The playback device option on the main tool bar area is on 'microsoft soundmapper - output' and won't let me select the 'speakers (realtek high definition)' in the drop down. I've checked the mixer o...

Hi there again I've just got the Behringer UCA2020 device - referenced by people at the start of this thread - and I've made a recording onto the laptop (which uses Windows 7). The only problem is I can't hear it afterwards. I've gone through the manual and the troubleshooting but still can't work o...

Solved! That's fantastic Gale - I disabled the mic under 'recording' and unclicked the 'listen' on the stereomix and doing both of those has done the trick and the 'drill' sound has completely disappeared. Really would like to say thanks for your perseverance and help (in a way that I could understa...

Thanks again Gale. I went into to the Realtek speakers 'levels' slider - I moved that up to about 35/40 - above that at the reverberating mild pneumatic noise started from the computer, even though I wasn't listening to any audio files it started at just under 50. I tried listening to the two audio ...

Thanks again Gale. These are embedded speakers ie what the computer comes with. I've gone back into control panel > sound and checked, the default playback is 'Realtek high definition audio' speakers. I've right clicked and checked the properties. One thing maybe is that under 'levels' the Realtek H...

Sorry for being confusing. Yes those existing files played fine at any volume (the bberry video I usually had to play at full volume to hear it). The change has occurred since I made the modifications suggested in the wiki (the link I copied in in the message above). There are a number of steps in t...

Thanks again Gale. Yes the project rate in Audacity is 44100. But I've not been playing these existing files using Audacity - the two I've tried to play, one is a download that opens in MediaMonkey, the other is the audio associated with a video I took using my oldish blackberry phone and transferre...

Thanks Gale, Koz - it is existing 'good' files that aren't playing properly now on the computer. I've now gone into Sound and enhancements via the Control Panel and ticked the turn off all sound effects box, however, unfortunately that has not solved the problem. It is still a mild pneumatic drill s...