Audacity Forum

It would be interesting to see how this plays. Most of our postings start out with: "I'm a newbie and..." Not someone to trust with a paying editorial gig. All they want to do is make it through cutting a church service or recording their guitar. The rest of us who do do this sort of thing...

I may have to search elsewhere for my fix.

OK, go.

Koz

Don't double post. I answered your other posting and locked this one.
Koz

In Audacity 1.3.12, it's Edit > Preferences > Recording > Play tracks while recording new ones [X]. You might want to upgrade. We sometimes wait until people start having troubles and then strongly urge upgrading rather than hanging around trying to patch together Audacity 1.2. 1.2 is no longer supp...

Which Mac do you have and which OS? You shouldn't need the USB thingy at all. Most Macs still alive have a nice Stereo Line-In (two black arrows and a circle) and a headphone jack. It's possible to get a Mac so old it won't do that, but my very old iBook could. If you do have a modern Mac, you shoul...

i run my guitar threw my marshal amp and use the direct line out from the amp to my usb input on computer That's where it gets messy. You should be able to take the Direct Out of the Marshall amplifier (two RCA plugs -- may be a larger 1/4" plug) and plug it into the 1/8" stereo connectio...

my computer is windows 2000 xp pro

Laptop?

I need to read that thru a couple of times.

Koz

There's two problems. You probably should not have posted at the bottom of somebody else's post. You will get lost down here.

I'm a Mac elf primarily. My last wholly owned Windows machine was Win2K. Still running, by the way. If you have a problem with Windows 2000, I'm your man.

Koz

Or wait for 2.0 which will have Copy Files as default.

Koz

when i play my guitar with usb direct to audacity its fine and a clear recording, When you plug your USB guitar into what? Exactly what? Model numbers. is there anyway to remove the delay? Audacity 1.3 has the ability to neutralize some of the delays. Exactly which ones are you referring to? Audaci...