Audacity Forum

Oh, if I didn't mention this, Modern Macs do not support Audacity 1.2. Get Audacity 1.3.12 from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ If you use MP3 or other compressed formats, you should get "lame" and "FFMpeg" from the same place. Do not use older versions of those plugins. ...

Aggregation works by allowing a recording from two different bitstreams -- I'm want to say two (for example) of the same USB microphones. Don't fall in love with that idea. The two bitstreams are unsynchronized and the two shows on playback will gradually drift out of sync. It's a technique that sou...

Default sample rate 44100 Hz Default Sample Format 32 bit float. That's the good news. That means within reason, you can bring the volume down out of the red bar range in post production with little or no damage. Open one of your overloading shows and Effect > Amplify > New Peak Amplitude, -1. That...

Yes, the volume control on the Behringer is for the headphones. the input is extremely faint when used with a turntable. And, if you listened to it carefully, it's gutless. No bass at all and very forward treble. That's the distortion -- and it's very precise. Go into Audacity Preferences and read m...

You posted in a section of the forum where we can't tell a thing about your system. It's a Mac, right? Turn the speakers down. On a Windows machine, you can turn down the speaker system with the icon on the lower right.

Koz

I think it would be nice to have a feature in Audacity where the window would be dynamically rescaled. That might be the last thing you want. The meters are the standard by which you test everything else. If your meters go from-1 through 0 to +1, and you're getting red overload bars, then your soun...

Why are you creating MP3 files in Audacity? iTunes native uses AAC, not MP3 and it's a simple matter to make iTunes do the conversion for you. No lame needed.

Koz

One common way to confuse Windows is to have "funny" characters in the filenames. Did you try to put dates in your filenames? Operating systems hate the "/" character. That would create a conflict between the folders you can see and the ones Windows or iTunes sees. Start there. A...

Do you have a cellphone headset? If you look at the plug, I bet it has more than one or two gold rings on there. That plug has to carry headphone, microphone and sometimes control and the connection is much more complicated than just one audio signal. I don't know what the solution is, but that's th...

Actually, your problem may be a bit more straightforward than that. Audacity 1.2 is not supported under Snow Leopard. Get Audacity 1.3.12 from here:

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2.

Koz