Audacity Forum

I dont remember where I got mine from, but here's one place. http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-Control-UCA202-Audio-Interface/dp/B000J0IIEQ I think you can get it just at $30. Everybody tries the same thing. Mic-In on a Windows laptop is designed to plug in a microphone or headset like this. http://ww...

Audacity > About is gray. About is hidden under Help where the rest of the world puts it.
Koz

After you split the stereo track in two, you can use the Mute and Solo buttons at the left to listen to one or the other to decide which to keep. Then [X] delete the unwanted one and using the left drop-down menus, make the remaining one Mono. Export. You can also use the Duplicate Track (Edit > Dup...

Make a very high quality MP3 (128 or higher), park it in your iPod and go in the back yard and listen there.

Koz

Carefully pick up the file and listen to it on a completely different system. I think your computer monitoring system is fried/frying. You're producing delightful tracks, you just can't hear them.

Koz

I hear what might be normal background noise of a microphone system -- far softer than you gasping for air and moving your chair, and way under your "Testing" vocal. A very high, tight, delicate rain-in-the-trees hiss? Can you listen to the track somewhere else? This sounds like a dead nor...

Did you try selecting your device in Windows first? If Windows doesn't show any USB devices, then the unit isn't connected. Can you try a new cable?

This is a discontinued device. Have you had it very long?

Koz

Both tools are designed to be automatic. Find the one high point in the whole show and change the overall level until that one point reaches xx value. You pick the xx. It could be up or down. Have a happy day. Amplify does it to the whole show as one single entity, so that's pretty benign. Normalize...

The left edge values conform to what is required. I did an analysis of a well-behaved noise signal and the top value is -36.2 and the bottom value is -39.8.

I don't think you can force it. Other elves may know better.

Koz

Yes, please. In WAV or FLAC (harmlessly compressed). The Attach system will only allow about three or four seconds, so don't try to send the five hour presentation.
Koz