Audacity Forum

Just to cover it:

The machine did not go to Sleep or Suspend, right?

Are you connected to wall power or batteries?

How did you transfer your cassette? In detail. Part numbers.

What's the goal? "I want to burn an Audio CD."

Koz

I am recording audio on a single mono channel. From where? As a general rule, the Audacity setup adjustments have to match what you have plugged in. I have a mono (single channel) USB microphone and it will record a single blue wave in Audacity. Set mono in the Device Toolbar. http://manual.audacit...

You are using headphones, right? You should never have a live microphone without headphones.






Koz

So you're re-recording the backing track sound along with your voice. This problem is super common among people who like to record YouTube sound or other internet content. Those foldback settings run Record and Playback at the same time and link them. Those are exactly the wrong settings for overdub...

I wrote this when computers had two connections instead of only one, but the advice is the same.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/LaptopMicIn.pdf

Koz

... headphones ... the ones that came with my iPhone Those aren't "headphones." That's a communications headset. I can record my voice, listen to stereo music, host a conference and control the volume, all without touching my iPhone. I'm not shocked you found something funny when you told...

Did you get a new USB microphone? Sometimes Windows will distort sound pathways, including playback when you plug in a USB microphone or other sound device. Did you just start using Skype? Skype has been known to adjust sound pathways to what it wants and it doesn't matter what you or other software...

i have tried uinstalling and reinstalling but its still the same

Reinstalling Audacity doesn't reset audacity. In Windows, you can choose to reset audacity during the reinstall by ticking an option.

Koz

Chis famously doesn't like working with a sound track that starts with dead zero, flat line. When I'm cutting a show, I'll leave a little sound trash on the beginning to give Chris something to 'chew on'. After Chris finishes, I'll magnify my way in to the trash segment and cut it off or silence it....

That's called scrubbing and last I knew it was a work in progress.

Koz