Audacity Forum

No. Modern laptops are designed for communications and corporate conferencing. That usually means eliminating the stereo Line-In in favor of a mono Mic-In. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCHeadset.jpg That's how those two connectors are supposed to work. Mic-In is mono, not stereo and overlo...

Can we suspect you're in Windows? Many Windows laptops don't connect to stereo mixers very well. I use a Behringer UCA202 and that has worked well for me. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo.jpg Other people make USB interfaces. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recommended_sou...

I'm going to stop looking. Every time I turn over a rock. I can get that exact distortion with the Mini running 10.6.8 and Audacity 2.0.3. Just run About Audacity. When I do that, the yellow border around both tracks vanishes. Spacebar Play will distort. When I play the distortion and then stop, the...

Oh, this is too good. I pulled up the game music in 2.0.5 and started it three times and it was clean (first three passes). Then I opened up Audacity > About Audacity > OK... Audacious! > Play. http://www.kozco.com/tech/clips/20140408MavericksDistortion.wav Note the show is in mono and the distortio...

We must be getting closer and closer to the problem. I'm having a harder and harder time making it fail. New for Tuesday: I can't get the game sound to fail on the Mavericks MBP. After multiple tries, I put 2.0.5 back and the second time I mounted the music and played it, it was completely destroyed...

I'll try those variations.

I'm typing on my "TV Set" which is a Mini running OS-X 10.6.8 and Audacity 2.0.3,
The busted screen MacBook Pro is running OS-X 10.5.8 and Audacity 2.0.3. That's my telephone recorder.

As we go.

Koz

I heard back from ACX and I posted a request for a WAV of the raw capture show or as much as will fit in the email — before any filters or effects were applied. Xina's posting, I believe is a copy of the ACX submission. Cross-posting shortly.

Koz

Right away there's something very wrong. The first clip has no audio frequencies — pitch tones past about 16KHz. That's slightly better than FM radio. Not anything you would want to make a studio recording with. Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Quality > Sampling: 44100, 32-floating or 16-bit. What d...

How do you know that trouble with the second pass isn't related to doing a terrible job with the first?
Koz

Thank you. I'll look for it and cross post. We need a WAV file if we need to rip it apart and there are technical problems. I just want to see how loud you got during the voice capture. I can do that with a nice MP3.
Koz