Audacity Forum

Have you been through the tutorial?

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

Koz

The Lame software is to allow Audacity to make a new MP3. That's all it does. I'm not the Windows elf. This is the document on self-recording http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_pl...

Depending on the history of your machine, some of these may apply.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2047747 ... items.html

Koz

Apple > System Preferences > Users & Groups > You > Login Items.

How many users are there in that list? It should be just you and Guest User which is turned off.

Koz

I do voice over work and travel so this is my portable studio. Can you roll the machine back pre-Yosemite? Audacity 2.0.6 does not support Yosemite. Can you run an earlier Mac OS from a separate FireWire drive? I've done that. It records that way, too. Delete Audacity. Go > Applications > drag the ...

Sound kills more shows than video.....

Koz

Making the California Coast® BMW Commercial isn't as easy as it looks.

I'd probably shoot the motor non-moving in a quiet environment and dub it in with post production. Play the video to the driver so they can match the motions. Do it multiple times.

Koz

You are overloading the microphone or the recorder. The sound is much too loud for the method you're using. Import the sound into Audacity and select View > Show Clipping. All those red stripes indicate permanently damaged sound. That's assuming you're not moving. If you are, flapping, popping wind ...

Did you get Audacity from this page?

http://audacityteam.org/download/windows

Audacity is pretty popular and there are copycat installers out there which either don't install right, or install bogus versions of the program.

Koz

We can't see your computer, so you need to tell us a lot more about what you're doing. Start with the information in that pink band at the top of the page.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Docu ... tions3.pdf

Koz