Audacity Forum

I don't see the US-4x4 listed in the Tascam Windows 10 compatibility list. http://tascam.com/news/display/2459/ Windows 10 is not a normal Windows upgrade. It's a new operating system. Drivers and hardware have to be built to purpose. It has to say "Windows 10 Compatible" somewhere in the ...

You might also upgrade your Audacity. Current version is 2.1.3. 2.1.3 is much more likely to survive the latest operating system versions. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ There are two variations in the Windows installer. Plain, where it retains all your settings and preferences, and a...

I can't tell from the text, but it's important for Audacity to be last to the dance. Connect everything and let it settle and then start Audacity. Audacity checks for devices when it starts. You can also Transport > Rescan later. There is an additional storm cloud out there. It's possible to talk Au...

Audacity can't split a mixed performance into individual voices, instruments or sounds. It's a popular request that we can't do.

Audacity doesn't do surveillance, conflict resolution, advocacy or law enforcement. Contact an audio professional.

Koz

Is there an Audacity question in there? You have the symptoms of a hard drive failure. You should take your machine to a computer professional.

Koz

Everybody hates their own voice until they get used to it. If you mean recording your voice on your phone? There are tricks to make sure you don't go through all the environment processing and echo cancellation. iPhones have VoiceMemo and MusicMemo Apps. VoiceMemo sounds like a cellphone. Near as I ...

You can create a 20 second mono voice test and post it here on the forum.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Test ... _Clip.html

Koz

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html There's a very common complaint on Windows machines. "I didn't change anything and suddenly...." It got much worse with Windows 10. Did you start using any other sound program? Games, Chat, Skype, a se...

Many have Zero DB lineup tone which should help. It helps line up the Dolby Decoder. It doesn't do you any good at all. Dolby is a dynamic processor. It treats low volume sounds different from higher volume ones by a secret recipe. It was the first commercial sound compression and noise reduction s...

What are you recording?

You may not be personally making changes, but Windows Update and your virus software have been making changes in the background.

Koz