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Thanks for the detailed answer. It is likely to be the explanation. I do not have a stereo microphone to test (I do have a external stereo recorder device, but I do not think I can plug it into the computer). If I find such a microphone, I will test it with Audacity. For the time being, it is not a ...

Thanks for your answer. The situation is as follows : If I record using the internal microphone which is out-of-order, I do get som sound : a rumbling sound (ampitude like 0.02, base frequency seems to be 50 Hz), plus a bit of speech at a very week volume… not more than the backgounr noise. With the...

To follow up with this question, I can specify: for some time now, recording is ALWAYS clipped at EXCACTLY 0.5 (- 6 db) on my version of Audacity in Ubuntu. It was there with 2.2.1, now I upgraded to 2.3.3, and it is exactly the same. I also have Windows on my double-boot computer, and the Windows v...

A have Audacity 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 18.04. Any recording (from a microphone) is clipped at 0.5 (-6 dB). I found many mentions of this question on the internet, but no answer, back to 10 years ago. I could not find anything in the settings to change this. Recording in mono or stereo does not change anyth...