Audacity Forum

Thanks to everyone. I'm about to decide this has been a wild goose chase caused by RealPlayer. It seems to sound as I expected in other players, so I'm stopping my investigation for now. I do appreciate the link to Chris's Compressor and intend to look at that. Since I'm using Audacity to edit and a...

The audio is badly distorted because it's too loud. Is the sample that you processed a raw, totally unmodified recording (no effects applied, just recorded then exported without doing anything else)? What microphone are you using and how is it connected to your computer? No, after recording it I in...

The gain slider was at 0 when I did the export

This may be the first recording I've done it Audacity. I usually use it to edit sound files from other sources.

I find if I play it in Firefox it sounds much better.

Yes, it was made indoors at my desktop computer

I use Audacity in a crude way for voice, not music. So when I say the sound is bad, it's really bad. I created a short narration I planned to include in a Movie Maker video. It sounds good to me in Audacity but when I export it to either WAV or MP3 there are almost unintelligible parts. I was using ...