Audacity Forum

Your last problems have to do with shortcomings in the computer. I think I can get you on the road by simply stop using the computer for recording. Of course you do have to get good at driving the H4n.

Koz

I can't post a project, can I?
Shucks...

Koz

Which Windows? My Win7 machine had a Control Panel with little sound meters that bounced when I talked. I bet your sound meters don't bounce. If they don't, Audacity is never going to work very well.

Koz

We used to blanket recommend USB microphones and microphone systems as a way to get very good quality and performance at a very low price. We don't do that any more. This is my version. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/FryingMosquitoes3.wav I got this from a cheap, inexpensive USB microphone pre...

if you ever get out to Central Oklahoma, you have a place here, with us.

Thank you, but why would I leave Los Angeles for a place famous for earthquakes?

Ba-Dump Tish!

Koz

Zoom H4N Handy Portable Digital Recorder Cool. Plug the Shure microphone into the bottom of the H4N with a short XLR cable and tell the H4N to record from it instead of its own built-in microphones. You can use the scratch test to make sure the right microphones are working. http://kozco.com/tech/a...

There's no show there at all. That's just trash.

If I take a signal from TV/Radio plug from the wall and I record from it

Say that again and use a lot more different words. "I connected an audio cable from the VLF receiver headphone socket to the Mic-In of my Lenovo laptop."

Koz

The little PhonoPre doesn't have any lights at all, does it?

How do you know it's on?

Koz

There is one known oddity. Plug in everything and power it all up and then start Audacity. Doesn't work backwards unless you explicitly tell audacity to search for a USB connection with Transport > Rescan Audio Devices. Audacity gets the show from Windows, so if Windows can't find the PhonoPre, this...

Audacity generates a blue steady line that sometimes almost goes to the top of the audiotrack. That's not sound. Chances are good that's DC offset. There's battery voltage leaking into the sound. You can't hear it but it can cause some serious sound damage later. Effect > Normalize: [X] Remove DC >...