Audacity Forum

You're still looking. Audacity is not a WAV editor, but you can use it as one if you know the differences. It looks to me as you are nuclear-grade overloading your sound channel. Reduce the volume of the sound or audio work before the computer gets to it and try it again. If you're plugging a Line-O...

At first flush, I'd say yes, your machine isn't up to complex overdubbing. An overdubbing machine has to maintain perfect mixdown and playback of multiple tracks and record a new track -- also perfectly and all in synchronized real time. That's not easy. You can take this upside down. If you wanted ...

You can change the sample rate of any show with the little rate window lower left from the blue waves.

If you wanted to be daring, change it in Preferences. That will actually stretch or compress the show.

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Quality.

Koz

all tests passed.

That's too bad. We're close to running out of ideas.
Koz

I always used the external Bootable Device. I don't know, either. Then I bought Macs and they have different tools.
Koz

I'll try not to panel and mixer you to death, but we do live on fine details. "USB Thingy" for one example, isn't useful. We have to build your setup in our imaginations and I can't go out to Frys' Electronics and buy a thingy. I assume you may mean a USB Microphone Adapter similar to this...

Some USB turntables have a volume control underneath or on the base somewhere.
Try changing the Audacity "microphone" volume slider on the main window. Is it all the way up?

You can also go into Windows control panels and make sure they're turned up.

Koz

This is me on a broadcast microphone as a contrast.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhase4.wav

Koz

I have some cold water left. Noise Reduction and tools like that all depend on an interference that does not change. Quiet fan noise from a computer counts, but a car starting up outside and driving away does not. Music certainly doesn't count. The musical notes are constantly changing. You are corr...

By the way, this is exactly the same problem people have marrying two USB microphones. Some computers have the ability to record two separate USB microphones at the same time. There is a modest little setup panel which quietly asks which microphone would you like to use as master sync -- since it ca...