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What most people think of when they say "make it sound better" is eliminate the honky room echoes and traffic noises outside. You can do really well with an ordinary microphone in a quiet room with no echoes (a studio), but it doesn't work the other way around. It doesn't matter how much m...

Just one. The mixer is lovely, and it even has 48v Phantom Power, but it doesn't have a USB connection and the laptop doesn't have an analog input. I got around that with a Behringer UCA-202 adapter. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo-650.jpg That also happens to be one of the...

Is it stereo? One very common failure of recording with the Mic-In is you get two channels of sound, but they're not Left and Right. they're Left and Left. When you play your capture sounds, do the two sound meters track each other exactly as they bounce around. Real stereo doesn't do that.

Koz

Oh, and just to cover the bases, I recorded a custom, 39 second, stereo test file. I talk you through it. The last segment is intended to sound funny. http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhase4.wav Simple but for the end. The last segment is intentionally damaged by flopping the electrical phase of only...

I'm beginning to wonder if I'm hearing things. Maybe not the things you want to hear. I stopped using my Apple Earbuds for hiking. They have no low end at all. I bought a set of SIIG internal earbuds (they sit inside the ear canal) and those are terrific, no question, but I have to "install th...

No. Stereo Mix is used when you want the computer to record itself, as, for example recording YouTube sound. If your amplifier didn't show up as a device before, it won't with that setting, either.

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

Koz

I'm sure they've jumped right on that and fixed it by now

I'm sure.

"Let me understand this. You want us to change the design of one of the most popular microphones on the planet. Did I get that?"

Koz

OK. Got it (attached). That straight vertical drop is unnatural. There is a very tiny fraction of your voice that just isn't there any more. So this appears to be a "machine can't (or won't) keep up" problem. This is where we wait for a Windows elf to tell us what that means. Just a note. ...

after a while Did you keep any of the shows? What's a "while?" 20 minutes? How long are the shows? Can you post a ten second segment of the show featuring damage? There's three different, similar-sounding problems and it's good to know which one we're dealing with. http://forum.audacityte...

You may be in good hands, but you'd be in better hands if I was a Windows elf. I'm not. If you're having Windows sound problems, we have no choice but to wait for someone who can speak Microsoft. Sorry.

Koz