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Give us a time stamp. "Listen for the plop at five seconds."

Also longer clips would be good. You should be able to go to ten seconds or slightly more.

We're not used to your voice and we don't speak the language. Everything sounds strange.

Koz

Does the AudioBox work if you plug headphones into it rather than the computer? Does the AudioBox's power light come on? What's between your live performance and the AudioBox. Part numbers?

Koz

Which Windows and Which Audacity? Does your soundcard have all three connections? http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/soundCardFinal2.jpg Some of your symptoms are from someone plugging into the pink Mic-In rather that the blue Stereo Line-In. Plug your headphones into the amp and set it for quie...

without being obviously rude That's the key. The makers know how delicate the strips are and they take steps to make sure casual, normal use isn't likely to break anything. Don't take one out in the wind. Drop it into a plastic bag and roll it up or fold it in a scarf. There are a lot of Yetis out ...

We can start the help process, but it's not going to be fast. Do you have anyone there to help? What would you do if we couldn't fix it? Do you know how to post a screen capture? Make sure your Audacity is on the screen with a show on it. Shift-Command-3. The computer should make a camera shutter no...

Try opening Audacity and immediately save a Project on the desktop. Then try to make a sound recording in addition to that. Just press Record. If that works, then you or Audacity don't have permission to record sound to the default drive location that Audacity picked when you installed it. I don't k...

One of the instructions in the overdubbing sound-on-sound tutorial is make a straight recording . Full Stop. No overdubbing, no syncing, no barbershop quartet, no complexity. If you can't make a straight, simple recording then you can ignore all the other instructions until you can. I have a Logitec...

What gives?

Probably Windows Enhanced Services. It's built to help your speaking voice in Chat and Skype, but it hates music.

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

That's just the well-known one. You could have others.

Koz

i had the chance to try recording with Adobe Audition on the same computer in the same room, but the sound was tinny and i got hiss (maybe did something wrong). Since this is a mystery so far, maybe that's something to follow. You have a known, good software program other than Audacity that refuses...

Again, I can't hear the problem, but if the show is completely silent when you are, then it could be a defective microphone. Condenser microphones work by having two very thin strips of metalized plastic (sometimes real metal) close to each other with voltage on them. If you vibrate either or both s...