Audacity Forum

As recording a telephone call is notoriously difficult, how are you doing it? If it involves SoundFlower or other channel management software, did you leave Audacity Playthrough running by accident?

Audacity > Preferences > Recording > Playthrough [_] (Deselect).

Koz

That's news to us. What did Pamela say? It's their software with the gold-plated reputation. Koz

I don't think we're concerned with the connection quality. We're concerned that the connection doesn't work at all. Koz

The iPhone and the computer Headphone are both trying to push audio to each other -- clearly not going to work. I'm curious, did the article tell you to do that and if so, do you remember the address of the instructions? If you have a MacBook Pro laptop or something similar, you can use the built-in...

You didn't drop the other shoe. I want to concatenate all my lectures...... and then?

Koz

And there's no question why you want to do this. We recommend keeping the production sound elements separate if you can.

So is one out of sync with the other? Now you need to really pay attention to what's there and exactly what's broken.

Koz

Have you ever done Go > Desktop > Utilities > Disk Utilities > <your system drive> > Verify Disk and Repair Permissions? Actually you can do that to all your connected drives although they will only allow Verify. If you have puzzling permissions issues, that maybe worth a shot. Koz

Another oblique idea. Is your device muli-channel over 2? Are you expecting 6 or 8? The system settings should match each other whatever they are.

Koz

I'm still fascinated by you getting the Mac System Preferences to work and yet Audacity fails, even though it recognizes the device. That's extraordinary. You are at 44100, 16-bit, stereo right? Depending on the USB device, the control is ceded to the device and the Mac stops trying. So it's really ...

While we're here, do the meter overload indicators extinguish themselves yet? Koz