Audacity Forum

Thanks very much, Steve. It's audio-technica 2005USB. I finally dug out an old microphone last night to see if that might be the problem. I should have done that before I sent out my SOS because the old one works. Probably the cable. It's pretty long and thin. The thing is, I had problems with the a...

Please help. I've spent 3 full days searching for an answer. I found out that if I yell into the mic with mono recording selected, there is a little bit of green on the sound meter and I can hear a very faint voice recording. When I'm practically eating the mic and yelling as loud as I can, the gree...

I've run into similar issues with other applications. Go to "system preferences" > "security & privacy", give your password so you can make changes. Sometimes a little popup box will appear and you can click, "open anyway." If that doesn't show up, you have to chang...

Thanks very much. I have skype and messages. I launched and quit them both even though I rarely use skype. I don't have any games or other communication programs. I don't copy or download shows. If I set recording to mono, I get no sound at all and nothing but a flat line. If I switch to stereo, the...

I'm running mac 10.11.6. Audacity recognizes the USB Audio-technica mic as I can select it from the dropdown menu. But it but will not record in mono with the mic. It will record with the built in mic. It will also record on one channel in stereo when USB mic is selected. However, since the sound is...