Audacity Forum

Thanks WC. I changed both the settings as you suggested. The USB device had indeed imposed itself as the default in both places. But for some reason my speakers are still silent when recording. Point taken about using headphones to avoid any form of feedback between speakers and deck. I would do thi...

Report back on using the ACA202 I'm now the proud possessor of one of these units. Pleased to say that my first couple of recordings are free of the slow playback I have been whinging on about here. Hope it's fixed the problem. Audacity recognised the Behringer unit immediately - there was no need ...

Many thanks stevethefiddlefor the tip and for being tolerant of the less technically knowledgable! (When you mentioned "new sound card", I envisaged having to crawl around inside my PC case with a circuit board in my hand!) I read up a bit on the Behringer unit online, and this supports your recomme...

'Fraid not. Only what's inside my computer! I wouldn't know a sound card if it bit me on the ankle! I've been doing some more recording today. First LP side - 8.6% slow as before. Flipped it over, and without changing any settings, side 2 recorded perfectly. 2 further LP sides recorded fine. Bafflin...

Thanks alatham for advice. Changed the rate to 48000 as you suggested. Sadly this didn’t fix the problem immediately. I recorded one side of a vinyl LP which I timed at 19 min 55sec. Audacity’s readout showed it at 21 min 38sec, which I make around 8.6% slow. The music was audibly slow on playback. ...

My second posting on this subject. Audacity is still running slow on my PC - but not consistently so! I timed a piece of music on the source input (cassette deck) and compared it with Audacity's timeline on playback. I found the recording to be running about 9.8% slow compared to the original. I fix...

Thanks stevethefiddle. Yes, I did monitor while recording and the source seemed fine. I'm well schooled in cleaning tape heads and capstans and have a kit made by Bib which includes a liquid head cleaner and various cleaning pads. I used this before these recordings. If the cassette deck had been at...

Having done a few recordings now, I am aware that quite a lot of disk space is being taken up with Audacity’s data files. Audacity helpfully tells you how much recording time is left on your disk. I notice that Audacity occasionally adds backup files too. In addition there are the .wav files, when t...

I recorded music from cassette tape using Audacity. On playback the music was clearly running slow compared with the original. Could this be because my computer was starting to run out of memory when making a continuous recording of one side of a C90 tape (45 min)? My PC has a relatively modest ¾ gi...

Thanks stevethefiddle. You will get better quality if you record a signal at the correct level, rather than correcting the error after you have recorded it. Agreed - "garbage in, garbage out!". You can use "Normalise" on each channel to bring them up to 0dB (or any other level). Thanks for tip. I've...