Audacity Forum

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Koz

Please don't double post. I removed your duplicate. Audacity will work with almost anything that's visible in Windows Control Panels. If Windows can't see it, you have no chance with Audacity. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_P...

As small as they are, uncompressed production errors do happen. Dither is added so the errors don't line up with each other and become destructive. Did you try turning Dither off as Bill's post? Remember, Not A WAV Editor. You're not hearing any of these errors are you? You're just concerned with th...

You might find that the Mic-In electronics in your laptop overloads before Audacity does. This give you the common complaint of a show that will not go over 0.5 in the blue waves no matter what you do, but the overload tools in Audacity do not display. Microphone amplifiers are looking for signals a...

Try resetting Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo, restart Audacity and try a short test. Some applications object to Audacity default settings.

Koz

Source selections have to be done in Windows, not Audacity -- or Windows and Then Audacity.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz

The short answer is no.

Koz

The choices are Low-Level, Mono, Mic-In and High-Level, Stereo, Line-In. Very few laptops cross them or can switch between them. Your laptop has number one and you need number two. Many people make very good use of a UCA202 device... http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA202.aspx It basically prov...

Are you trying to plug something into the Mic-In of your laptop? That's almost always a recipe for overloading and other oddball problems -- unless you're plugging in an actual microphone. So we're going to need a lot more detailed information of how you got from the phonograph to Audacity. For one ...

<<<What are you recording, with what, and how?>>> We ask people if they're recording "live" and they say yes, live from the internet. Those two are very different and have different problems. It's also way different again if you're trying to record a Skype interview, so be specific. Koz