Audacity Forum

Ah! Gale! You may be onto something! I started noodling in the Device Toolbar. By changing the Audio Host to Windows WASAP (I am using Wndows 7) and the Speakers to my default (Dell USB Audio speakers), the clips now playback correctly! The bad news is that I can't record audio with those settings. ...

The mic was new, but as I said, I tested it with Audacity when I bought it and it seemed to be working fine. Plugged into same hardware. Same Windows system. I am not aware of any changes in software either.

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate, 64bit. I currently have Audacity 2.0.5 loaded, via audacity-win-2.0.5.exe. I have Lame-v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe. Hello. I have been using Audacity in various versions for about six years, quite successfully, to record audio and perform minor edits, with no issue. I rece...

I have it set in Audacity Preference > Devices > Recording Device to External Mic (IDT High Defiti) which I assume means that it would pull from the mic I have connected rather than the onboard microphone. Should I set it otherwise, or might there be another setting I should use elsewhere? I do appr...

Unfortunately, the operating system doesn't really make a difference here. I have both versions running here on Vista and i have tested them each. One sounds warm, the other has space in it. The only variable is the software version.

I was using Audacity v. 1.2.6 previously, recording podcasts with an Azden WLX-Pro mic plugged right into the mic port on my laptop. The sound was perfect, to me, warm and immediate. Perfect for podcasting. Unfortunately, I found that when I moved to a Vista operating system, the program seemed to c...