Audacity Forum

I'm not understanding what you mean by a simple recording then a simple playback. Split the system into pieces and make sure each piece works OK. Play a known, good, working sound file into your speaker or headphone system and make sure it sounds OK. It may not. I got a production computer once wit...

Some newer computers don't have USB A any more. You need to sort which adapters you need.



Koz

I want to do the same You want to do the same thing only different. You will not be using a microphone since your drumset already has electronic delivery. Connect the two yamaha DTX500 Line-Outs with two of these... https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/Adapter-QuarterInchToRCA-650w.jpg Through a...

You may be experiencing one of the main reasons Audacity doesn't make a very good surveillance recorder. No time stamps. There's other reasons, but that's a big one.

Koz

Before you go riding off in all directions, we need to make sure you're using the microphone properly. The instructions claim you don't need any DeEssing and the microphone has no harsh gritty sound. It is strongly recommended you record with proper volume and lip spacing and do everything else in p...

If the interface or associated software is gating it will be possible to switch it off.

Which snaps us back to knowing what your microphone is and how you have it connected.

Koz

What's the show? We need a show concept or idea before we can start throwing sound channels around.

Is this a Skype version of an older, non-virus production? Interview?

Audacity and Skype/Zoom tend to not get along in the same computer.

Koz

You can get that error if you use punctuation marks in filenames. Upper case, lower case, numbers, -dash- and _underscore_ are safe. That's it. Today is 2020-10-20. No slash marks.

Koz

A word on decibels. They seem to work backwards but the numbers are all negative, so it's OK.

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Koz

You almost told us which microphone you're using. We may have tricks for using it if we knew what it was.

Koz