Audacity Forum

Turn off the 20dB boost if that's got turned on by accident. That will create bad recording conditions for a guitar. Guitar and Stereo Line are cousins of each other and a guitar will work in either one. The angels will not smite thee if you cross them by accident. As an experiment, I borrowed one o...

Cool. So this is where okieman drops in to tell us what he did.

Koz

So, I'm guessing the OP is using it over sp/dif optical? That's possible, but the distortion is happening way before that. How do you access the guitar connection? There's nothing on the case to tell you what to do. It's possible that's what the "Insert" connection does. But it's more lik...

I don't think it's a problem of being up to the challenge. Audacity is famously unable to "rescue" bad performances. We don't do forensics. All our tools depend on some part of the performance being at least close. If none of the performance is close, then the tools don't have anything to ...

I thought the MPA was a microphone pre-amp.

I think that's the problem.......

Koz

Right. Massive clipping. If you play fuzz guitar, you get that by taking a clean guitar and apply massive clipping. Little or no difference which is why you can't hear it. Plug the guitar into the Instrument or Line connection of your interface. Not the Microphone connection. I hope it has one. I do...

I think there is a problem with the correct settings for audacity.

Probably not. Audacity does not apply filters or effects during recording.

Windows, however....

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... hancements

Koz

If Windows can't find it, Audacity will never find it.

Koz

I use it on a landline. It's not going to work if there's no human speaking on an actual phone. Is there something magic about what you're doing? I use it to remember what time my dentist told me to be there.

Koz

if you use it in the right way!

That can be the hard part.

Schubert I think once said playing the piano was easy. "There's the white keys and the black keys. You just push them in the right order. What's the problem?"

Koz