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maybe that's why a lot of them don't bother with a line input. As in that publication, the reason they don't bother with the Stereo Line-In is they're business computers and are outfitted with everything you need to Skype call the home office from your hotel room. The hard one to develop is the Mic...

We are using clipping as a test device. Under no circumstances should you be clipping or in any way overloading the sound channel. That damage sounds terrible and it's permanent. Never make the red recording meters go all the way to the right or the blue waves all the way up and down.

Koz

I have reinstalled audacity about 6 times hoping the problem would be rectified. You don't reinstall Audacity to reinstall Audacity. There is one configuration file you must change and leave everything else where it is. Audacity will start over from First Birthday. Reset Audio Preferences: http://w...

And just to cover another not-so-obvious operational item. From the Submittal Sheet: The AT2020 is a side-address fixed-charge condenser microphone with a cardioid polar pattern. That means although it looks like you should be talking into the round end of the microphone, you should be talking into ...

You need a cable between the line-out plug of the cassette deck, and the line-in plug of the computer sound card.

If you have one. Most Windows Laptops do not have a Stereo Line-In and that's the leading cause of distortion like you have. See web publication.

Koz

Wait, you want to record the keys, or the musical notes?

You can set your computer up to record its own sounds.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... e_computer

Koz

I don't know that I follow that exactly, but you can get noises like that if you go through a USB hub anywhere. Audio hates doing that. Do you use external USB hard drives in the system? Audio doesn't think too highly of that, either.
Koz

The best you can do is install the FFMpeg software. That allows Audacity to recognize and process a very wide range of content, however, if VLC couldn't deal with it, that's not a good sign.
http://audacityteam.org/download/
Koz

Some newer Windows machines "leave out" the ability to do that.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... e_computer

Koz

You can use the SoundFlower software to make your Mac record anything playing on the computer.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... ack_on_Mac
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User: ... ming_audio

Koz