Audacity Forum

Six (5.1). But you won't be doing it in Audacity. I believe you can get Dolby AC3 Surround into Audacity, but you can't get it out.

Koz

There is a little mechanical mechanism under the platter that signals to the arm when its at the end of its natural travel -- it reached the lead-out groove. If that mechanism is badly adjusted, broken, or missing, the arm may retract anywhere. This is an odd problem, but not impossible. There have ...

Two. Left and Right.

Koz

One of the two main reasons that broadcast and high end entertainment corporations are not wired with consumer cables is this exact problem. Consumer equipment has the shield and case of the equipment as part of the signal because it's cheap to do that and in most cases it doesn't matter. This means...

The number of "audio tracks" that Audacity can handle

But the questions was playing them. Correct me, but the answer is two, left and right.

Koz

Leave Audacity closed and open up Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input.

You have 'Line-In, Built-In Input' selected, right? Does that dancing blue ball sound meter go all the way up on the distorted peaks?

Koz

It's possible. Do you have a normal microphone connection -- usually pink? My machines have the ability to "fake" a stereo microphone by splitting the mono microphone signal into two and presenting it to the system that way. That still doesn't mean the system will accept a high-level, ster...

We have two soft recommendations. In the $100 range, the Edirol MA-7A is not dreadful. They're far better than normal "computer speakers" and you can turn that default bass boost thing off. http://www.roland.com/products/en/MA-7A/ For more serious work, we use Rokit5 for return voice on th...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFGm67wtUQ

And no, it didn't escape me that he's doing this commercial with a tie-tack microphone on his chest for voice and not the product.

Koz

The sound card is used to create a digital signal from your microphone or other show. USB microphones go around all that because they have all the electronics inside them They deliver a good quality digital signal to the computer -- whether or not you have a sound card installed. We keep dancing aro...