Audacity Forum

Thanks, I checked the soundcard inputs again. The device is plugged into the "blue" mini-plug. And, the device volume responds to the SoundMAX line-in volume control slider. I have my speakers plugged into an light green mini-plug and a microphone plugged into an orange mini-plug. This all...

I answered my own question. Thanks, anyway. It was all about volume control. I set my reel-to-reel tape player left channel at mid-range. I set my SoundMAX computer volume line-in at one click from the lowest setting. I set the Audacity line-in at one click from the lowest setting. Recording was ver...

I'm not sure that I ran a current copy of lame when I downloaded 1.3.x. I'll try that. Before doing the WAV file, however, there is something about the appearance of the "raw" (undoctored) waveform being recorded as an .aup file that I am suspicious about. The waveform does not have any pe...

The audio clips that you provided sound fine played back in Audacity. So , the answer to your first question is: Yes, everything else played back on Audacity sounds fine. For those "reel-to-reel" recorded waveforms that were exported to .mp3 there was no quality improvement if played on Ne...

42-year-old tapes sound great on speakers before Audacity recording; I have a collection of mono 3-inch, reel-to-reel voice tapes made while I was stationed in Vietnam. I plan to edit and archive most on DVD’s with still photos from that era. I have an AKAI X-1800SD reel-to-reel player set up to pl...