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There's another piece of this. Those two don't plug into each other.

Could this be as simple as plugging the tape machine in first and then start or restart Audacity? Audacity should be last.

Koz

Does the keyboard have a headphone connection? You can adapt that to your computer and record that. Digital MIDI isn't music. It's machine control instructions. You have to tell the keyboard to play something and then record that something. They're getting hard to come by with the sickness, but I us...

I guess there's a fifth one. Record at night. That worked famously, although I don't know why your voice volume would have shifted.

Koz

Audacity Recovery Utility. Did you get that from the Audacity help pages? A Utility was offered for a while but its hit rate was so bad that it was deprecated. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recovery.html The later Audacity programs would sense there was something wrong and try to fix it, but ...

The hum tone is not a pitch common to power or electrical problems, but it could be your cooling, ventilation, or air conditioning system. That would work with a problem only happening in daytime. The Day file will "pass" ACX (air quotes), but not enough to submit for publication. You have...

There's one immediate problem without even using any of the fancy-pants tools. This sound test is a fraction of the volume of the first test. The first test is on top. Screen Shot 2020-08-20 at 7.27.55 AM.png That's not good news. That means to make ACX we have to boost the voice volume and any othe...

You can have more exotic problems, too. Do those glitches and noises happen about the same times your phone goes on and off or takes some action? Phones do radiate energy and they can get into analog devices. It's less common, but there used to be a signature beep-buzz sound that a phone would make ...

I have a problem with clicks/pops from my analog recording equipment. It's oscillating. It's easy to think of analog defects such as background noise and distortion, but there's a third defect. They can make up their own trash. Basically, they stop following your show in favor of their own show. On...

I just recently read about the "pencil trick" -- securing a pencil with a rubber band vertically down the middle of the front of the condenser mike. If you do try that, you have to post back and say how it went. We'll need before and after voice tests. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/...

One other thing you can do when you're troubleshooting is make the Solo tell you the microphone is OK. The Solo knobs will light up and turn colors when you speak into the microphone. That's insanely important to know because that shortcuts a lot of questions we have to ask. You can speak loudly and...