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Audacity experts - youve helped me out so succesfully on my previous issues I hope you can do the same on this. System : Modified Technics SL1210 mk2, Michell tecnoarm, ortofon Nightclub 2 cartridge, Cyrus Phono X phonostage, posh atlas interconnect to Y connector into 3.5mm line-in socket on PC (At...

This is really a new question now so I`ll post separately.

OK. Its not the turntable or phono stage. In fact what Im hearing IS a low level of distortion that seems to be introduced by the high gain of 12" vinyl. So, with stereo mix on min and just enough output to be able to hear, what you get is the sound of the track being playedbut horribly distorted an...

Thanks both The "clicking in the level meters" function works superbly. I now notice there's also a drop down for turning monitoring off and on which does the same thing. Thanks very much. Both the requirement to use this function and the aforementioned delay appear to be a symptom of now using a US...

Thanks so much WC. I`ll try that tonight. I spent ages playing with the mixer built into the Nvidia sound chipset on the computer to see if that made a diference but it simply introduced lots of extra gain and didnt solve the problem. I guess I`ll have to be careful I dont mess up my levels every ti...

Im sure this has been asnswered before, great Gods of Audacity but here's my dilemma. Just upgraded my 1.3 beta to lovely new 1.37 and at the same time upgraded my sound system from one that uses the PC line-out to drive an amp and speakers, to a USB device (Bose Comapnion 5)..which is rather more w...

Cheers. Will try tonight and report back

Thanks so much for the quick response. I think I havent been clear enough in my description. Ive tried both ways. With the USB route there is no audible distortion but the meters are constantly in the red and the the wave shown in the main panel is almost obliterated by red (which I guess is indicat...

Dear All Second post and hope someone can help me on this one, too. Im using a Technics sl1210 as a source with a top-of-the-range ortofon nightclub mk2 cartridge into my little poject phono box 2 usb. Whilst albums are fine, with 12" singles the signal is heavily overloading the input so that the m...

OK. Got that sorted and incidentallky, cant hear any audible difference between line in and usb. Thanks