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It seems the mic has self amplified or something I'll go with "or something." it sounds like a laptop mic How sure are you that it wasn't your laptop mic? Try the scratch test. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/ScratchTest2.wav Describe your computer in detail. I'm typing on a 2012 Mac...

You shouldn't be using an internet connection with your WinXP laptop.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 46&t=84123

Koz

Slightly low is far preferable to overloading. Overloading is obvious, destructive and permanent. If you have viewable blue waves that's not dreadful since the waveform view (assuming you didn't change it) only looks at the loudest 24dB (or so) of the full range of 60dB or, given 16-bit sound, 96dB....

I did a video once where I blacked out the portions of our mixer boards that didn't do anything. Anybody walking up to a mixer board wants to run and hide from the forest of knobs and switches. We're not producing an international videoconference (although we've done that, too). We're just playing v...

(yes, with a TRS > XLR adaptor). While you can do that, I believe you can push a 1/4" plug directly into the middle of the XLR-3 female. They're combo connectors. See the hole in the middle is bigger than you think it should be (attached)? I think they also shift amplifiers if you do that. The...

Too late. The house is classic California stucco with metal lath underneath the stucco. I have trouble getting wifi in the back yard and for years I thought I needed a roof antenna because TV reception inside sucked. No. It only sucks below the attic because that's where the stucco and lath is. The ...

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

Koz

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html
YouTube videos can be dangerous because nobody ever updates them for advanced versions of Audacity.
Koz

Yeah, I learned that relatively recently. Also not to tap on the screen to see if it's live. Talk first, then scratch. Talking will get the attention of the board operator. If that fails, scratching may be loud enough to set the overload/clipping light on the mixer desk giving the board op a clue &...

exporting the original raw version to .FLAC You can totally do that, but FLAC isn't the universal file format that WAV is. Audacity picked WAV as the default format because all three major computer platforms can effortlessly open them. Never do production in MP3. Warner Records called. They want WA...