Audacity Forum

You have too many problems. Do the blue waves still vanish when you press stop? stereo adapter from the record player Line Out. Does the switch really say Line-Out on and off, or more likely switch between Line-Out / RIAA Out . Sound in a groove isn't recorded natural. Bass notes have a hard time fi...

but maybe you were suggesting for testing purposes Maybe. I have too many times when my laptop fans kicked in for no good reason and Go > Utilities > Activity Monitor told me "web page content" was taking up 125% of system resources and most of the memory. Apparently I can have a fist-fig...

I got pieces. Start (lower left) > Control Panels > Sound. That should give you a control panel with all the Windows settings. One of those tabs should show you the USB sound connection from the UMC22. It may not be called that. USB connections can be named anything. It could be called USB Audio COD...

Could there be something wrong with my settings in my Windows 7...? Yes. That's almost certainly where it's falling apart. Right-click the speaker icon on the lower-right corner of your desktop (Leave Audacity closed). One of the options that opens should be the Windows sound control services. Volu...

Your desktop is likely to have a blue Stereo In connection and you should be able to directly connect a stereo cable between the two. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/stereoJumper.jpg Very few laptops have that. You can struggle with the laptop Mic-In or HeadSet In , but I use a stereo USB ada...

laptop speaker and microphone You can't overdub with the built-in speakers and microphone. You can totally do that with the built-in microphone and headphones plugged in the side. Were you using the speaker? I would expect echoes and sound management problems if you are. Do you have bad sound that ...

Apparently, the microphone has no "Phantom OK" light. Generally, if you can hear your voice at the UMC22 headphone connection and get an overload light, the microphone is OK. The UMC22 +48v light is on, right? That's the voltage supplied to the microphone. That's the phantom power. It's ca...

Do you have any other connections between the UMC22 and the computer? I expect just the USB cable to be enough.

There have been instances where new users also connected an analog cable to the computer and used a bad connection on top of that, killing the recording.

Koz

You didn't follow the instructions. Make a test recording while the red overload lights are on. The UMC22 is a native mono device and should have no trouble delivering a show with Audacity set to Mono. There should be no 6dB error. Many USB devices take away the volume control. The slider goes all t...

Are you getting the little green signal light on the Behringer? Can you get the red overload (CLIP) light? Never blow into a microphone, but keep speaking louder and louder and turn the volume up until the red light comes on. Using that volume and setting, start Audacity recording. Do you get any wa...