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Did you use the volume control or the pan control on the left hand side of the timeline? They cause the timeline and the show to go out of reference with each other. It's possible to amplify the show with that tool and cause intense damage, but the timeline blue waves will be perfect. It occurs to m...

Do they vanish if you Amplify (reduce) the show something tiny like -0.1db? The clipping indicators are a little magic because lots of things happen at "0." For one thing 32-bit floating audio doesn't clip at 0dB, and another is audio at 0dB isn't necessarily clipping. 0dB is a valid place...

Just as a test, drag-select some small portion of the show and press the delete key. The production keys will not work if you capture something live and press pause at the end instead of stop.

Koz

If I amplify a half hour show there is stuff I can hear and other stuff I can't. Right. As above. You're fighting the laptop's genetic need to turn your theatrical performance into a corporate audio conference. The two are very different. First, you can't plug a Stereo signal into the Mic-In of a l...

I would stay far away from Noise Removal. It's not for beginners and it's not a one-click tool. You can cause sound damage that's annoying and irreversible. You need to be careful with Normalize, too. Almost guaranteed it doesn't do what you think. Normalize and Amplify are close cousins. If left to...

I would stay far away from Noise Removal. It's not for beginners and it's not a one-click tool. You can cause sound damage that's annoying and irreversible. You need to be careful with Normalize, too. Almost guaranteed it doesn't do what you think. Normalize and Amplify are close cousins. If left to...

I think somebody got there ahead of me....

Koz

I'm betting that's Windows Conferencing Echo Cancellation kicking in. You can turn that off in Windows Control Panels.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 82#p113805

Koz

It's not so much a sub-par sound card as it is a Windows laptop. Windows machines are designed for audio conferencing in a business setting, not recording your guitar solo. First, you probably can't connect your 808 directly to your laptop. Most laptops have a very delicate mono Mic-In connection an...

It's not. Just based on the guess that you have an average Windows laptop, many of them have an analog, mono, Mic-In connection which will not connect to this device without damage. The laptop has to be able to run a sequencer and send MIDI signals to the device over the USB port, and then record th...