Audacity Forum

There is one more. People new at recording aren't accustomed to watching volume indicators. With your microphone plugged into #1 and the #1 volume control cranked all the way up, can you make the little red overload light come on? Keep speaking louder and louder until it does. It will not damage any...

This is a copy from the Tascam manual. Turns out Monitor knob controls the volume of the house monitor or speakers much like the headphone volume controls the headphone volume.

The Mix knob instructions are, well, instructive. Yours doesn't do what they claim it does (attached).

Koz

The only thing is I can't hear what I'm putting down thru the headphones

And that point right there is extraordinarily unusual. Suppose you weren't overdubbing? The whole monitor section of the unit would be of no value.

I think that's worth taking it up with Tascam support.

Koz

It was more about me not feeling comfortable posting photos of the inside of my house to the entire world Job One is not the relative position of the microphone to the desk. It's finding out why your speakers don't sound like you—alternately, why the show we hear isn't the show you hear. Then, late...

It's generally far more valuable to keep things on the forum. The other elves are available to jump in if there is more information on any point or a correction. Plus, the posts are available to help others. We know what the two important problems are: You're recording in a machine shop and your mon...

There's a piece of this we don't know. There are the adjustments on mixers which support overdubbing and that's what those knobs say: USB<---------->LIVE MONITOR (or something similar). At one extreme, they let you listen to the USB connection or Audacity Playback, and at the other, you listen to yo...

It's true. Audacity only supports one channel of sound. Many multi-channel devices (beyond stereo) configure their sound as blocks of stereo. Audacity sees each block as one channel. I think there's a trick to getting 3 and 4, but you would only have 3 and 4. It drops 1 and 2. Does support mention &...

to verify my system's sound is accurate. If that includes speakers and headphones, you just jumped into magic land from super accurate digital and somewhat less accurate analog sound. Radio Shack used to sell a very nice Sound Pressure Level meter. I see they don't any more, but that will only tell...

My computer lost power and I was not able to save my recording.

If you make it to the second forum chapter of disaster recovery, there's a really good chance the show isn't coming back. You should continue to try, but start making plans for having no useful show.

Koz

I've tried recording w/the mic on my headset and that works fine with Audacity.

If you can make a USB recording without the Snowball, I'm having a hard time avoiding there being a problem with the Snowball. Snowballs have replaceable cables. Can you try a new one? It uses a Printer cable.

Koz