Audacity Forum

Please don't double post. I answered the other one. Koz

I posted a slightly revised version: The Four Horsemen of Audio Recording (time tested ways to kill your show) -- 1. Echoes and room reverberation (It will always sound like your show was in a barn.) -- 2. Overload and Clipping (Any sound that's too loud is permanently trashed.) -- 3. Compression Da...

Win7-64 SP-1 Start > Control Panels > Audio Control Panel [ ]EAX Effects (deselect) [ ]CMSS-3D (deselect). Start > Control Panels > Sound > Communications. [X]Do Nothing. Start > Control Panels > Sound Effects Manager > AC97 Audio Configuration. Zero out, turn everything off or bypass the tools. You...

Excellent. Meanwhile I'll paw through my notes that I made before they took the Win7 machine away from me. Koz

You posted in the Mac forum. This stuff doesn't work on a Windows machine. Koz

On a Mac, yes. You can plug your guitar pickup or the output of your amp directly into the Stereo Line-In of your built-in sound card. Both work and give you different sound. You can set levels with Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Or using the Audacity Device Drop-Down menu. I...

I changed your post to make it a little easier to read. I hope that's OK. When you plug something USB into a Windows machine, may times the machine will assume that you want to assign both speakers and microphone. You don't. You might use the Audacity Device Drop-Down to select your speakers or Outp...

What's suppose to happen is you get only one sound channel from your mono microphone. If you need both channels, Edit > Duplicate and Make Stereo with the drop-down on the left. What's happening to you is you have Concert Hall Effects running somewhere in the Windows Control Panels. It's creating an...

I actually have not had this problem, but as a forum elf, we've encountered it billions of times. Nobody's ever been able to replicate how this check box gets checked, however, and if you intentionally try to make selections skip with that tool, it doesn't work. [Twilight Zone Moment]
Koz

See if you have "Snap To:" selected at the bottom of the screen.

Koz