Audacity Forum

Any ideas?

Yes, but I need to drop out for a while.

The Behringer stuff is perfectly compatible with Macs.

Koz

Note the above is a burning rubber fast overview of the much more detailed tutorial, and there's nothing in here about all the gotchas you can run into with the different computer types and microphones. The tutorial has three different zero latency devices I wrote up as examples. One microphone, one...

Needing to select the backing track did catch me off guard. I don't think you used to have to do that. Anyway, make sure you have your device selected for both playback and record in the Audacity device toolbar. I'm using a Behringer UM2, so my sound device is USB Audio CODEC for both. The quality o...

It took about ten minutes to set up Recording Latency and this is me doing Julie Andrews against the metronome backing track. Three times. It would have been faster but I can never remember which way the latency adjustment goes. "If it's too early, you make the adjustment smaller. No, wait. Tha...

It's not unusual for the project to outstrip the elves. Help is an X4 job. We not only have to know how the program works, but typical symptoms when it doesn't, typical user errors, and strategies for digging you out of trouble after you dug yourself in. Let's try this. Assume Audacity 2.2.2. Early ...

I think I messed a step there. Do you have guitar speakers separate from the computer? That microphone thing is going to pick up your guitar speakers, not the computer speakers. You can't use the computer speakers for anything until you're editing later. If you have your choice of weapons, the Shure...

The UM2 is a very nice USB microphone preamp with the option of a secondary channel for "instrument" or guitar. One setup option is record in Stereo and have the microphone on the left and the guitar on the right. You can also set it up Mono (the reason I bought it) which gives you the mic...

2. With your scratch test nothing moves in the microphone volume indicator in Windows > Right-Click Speaker (lower right) > Recording devices though... (no greens) Mmm. Right. So there's something wrong with the way Windows is seeing your USB system. in Spectrum Lab. So the microphone does pick up ...

I would switch the system to mono and drag it back from those super high settings to 16-bit, 44100, Mono.Those first two numbers are the settings for audio CD and are as common as dirt. Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices: Mono. > OK. Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Quality: Sampling > Rate: 441...

is a complete flat line That's not surprising. The default timeline only recognizes the loudest 30dB (approximately) out of the possible 96dB of sound. That's useful because if your presentation isn't in the top 30dB, it's likely to be too damaged for a show. Close Audacity for a minute. Windows > ...