Audacity Forum

Hi again! I'm away from my tape deck/laptop set up right now and haven't had a chance to try any further tests (I will hopefully get to do some more this evening). The thing that's concerning me is, regardless of input signal tests, before I even connect anything to the inputs of the interface there...

The tape deck outs (L/R RCA marked 'LINE OUT') are line level. There's a gain trim level on this Citronic unit which I have set to about half way. Like I say though, there's the flickering on the meters in Audacity WITHOUT the deck (or any input source) attached. Why would you expect inputs to be n...

Yes, aware of gain structure. My decks sending a line level. I can control the gain with the trim on the interface (it has a clip gain LED that turns red if the input source is too loud which it's not in this example). I click on 'Monitoring' in Audacity and there it is, a garbled static sound and t...

The tape deck outs (L/R RCA marked 'LINE OUT') are line level. There's a gain trim level on this Citronic unit which I have set to about half way. Like I say though, there's the flickering on the meters in Audacity WITHOUT the deck (or any input source) attached. If I remove the interface it goes aw...

Still not out of the woods this end it appears! Even with my laptop just running on battery power (ie: no mains 'interference') I can't seem to get rid of the 'static' or whatever it is! As soon as I fire up Audacity (with this 'CITRONIC AC-1USB' USB-powered interface connected) then click 'Monitori...

Thanks so much for your respose. Yes, Windows is seeing this Citronic audio capture device as a 'USB Microphone' and the default is one channel 'mono'. I'll go and have a look 'behind the scenes' now and see what else has been enabled that might need disabling. Thanks so much!

Hi! I've just got hold of a Citronic AC-1USB gadget to convert my tapes to digital. I'm coming out of my tape deck (stereo RCA L&R) into the Citronic interface (again stereo RCA) and into Audacity. Even with no signal, I note that when I click on monitoring the meters are flickering and there's some...

Ahh! Got that wrong then (I had a 50/50 chance of getting it right!) What am I talking about? Well, I'm (just) two files in (thankfully!) and on both sound files I had made the executive decision NOT to dither! Ahh well, should be easy enough to rectify! Anyway, I'd just like to take this 'final' (L...

CASE SOLVED ... ALMOST! Just one very last question (and then I promise the penny will have finally dropped and I shall crawl back under the rock I emerged from!) When I first asked my question here I was thinking that I would simply be chopping the start & ends of my sound files and that was that H...

BRILL! Thanks again. One last thing .... thinking on, I am probably going to need a few fades here & there on this batch of audio files (plus the jury's still out where 'Normalising' is concerned, out until I can sit down & find the time to analyse/hear the files together & investigate further. Thin...