Thanks for that valuable information, especially about the sound card. I'm going to check into that right away. It seems like an earlier version of audacity I used a long time ago, had some kind of a setting to remove DC offset, that was more apparent than 1.2 does. I'll try your post production set...
As a new user to Audacity, I have observed something that I am unable to find an answer for. When I make a recording (stereo), I notice that the baseline (if that is the proper terminology) of the waveform shown, does not line up with the 0 on the scale to the left of it. This creates a problem when...