Audacity Forum

I've recorded many things in Audacity Such as? Try to stay from fuzzy generalities when you're describing your problem. That doesn't help us. have plugged in a microphone and used a USB headset. At once? Plugging a USB headset to a Windows machine can cause the machine to reconfigure itself for the...

Skype takes over the sound services on your computer. If you do manage to rip the services back from the Skype process to do what you want, Skype will stop working. Total Recorder Pamela Professional or Pamela Business http://voipcallrecording.com/ http://www.skyperec.com/ I think there's another ca...

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Crash_Recovery
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Recovery
Are you in Audacity 1.3? You posted in the 1.3 forum.
Koz

Was your Mac sleeping all that time, or did you shut it down and restart? Koz

The Canopus delivers a video package, not audio. You might try capturing the show in QuickTime Pro (if they still do it that way) and then save the video file and open the file in Audacity. I think you could also use QuickTime to Export the audio separate from the video. A lot of this changed with Q...

Does it have three RCAs? Red, White and Yellow? That adapter might try to create a video package that Audacity might not be able to read. The Yellow connection is for video. We like the Behringer UCA-202. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/UCA202.jpg I own one here and there are four in service at w...

The Audacity compressors might help, but they take setting and fiddling. You might try Chris's Compressor. Chris developed a compressor that simulates the processing at the radio station. That's why you can drive around all day without changing the volume on your car radio. http://theaudacitytopodca...

That's a cousin to the Shure X2U I reviewed. Did you upgrade to a USB hub because you ran out of connections? Stop that. Audio systems must have one single dedicated connection to the computer.

Koz

One more. This won't affect you, but you should be using the latest Audacity, not 1.2.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

That and Version 2.0 is coming out shortly.

Koz

Maybe nothing. Low volume is a very common complaint about the Samson series of microphones. Were you using the Logitech USB Desktop microphone? http://www.logitech.com/webcam-communications/microphones/devices/221 Terrific microphone. I have one and I like it. But it's a communications microphone, ...