Audacity Forum

A guitar pickup produces a very hot electrical signal. It will overload a Mic-In on a computer. You should plug it into the Line-In only.

This usually kills Windows laptop users because many of them have no Line-In.

Koz

<<<rock band microphone>>> That is a USB microphone. The quality should be a lot better than your original microphone and the limiting feature should now be your room -- echoes and reverb and street noises. However, if you have Audacity recording sliders all the way up and the microphone is still to...

Silence finder isn't going to work because cassette tapes are never silent. [ffffffffffffffffff] Unless your tapes were top quality, Cobalt Metal, High Bias, Dolby C, they're going to have serious tape noise underneath the music. Silence Finder kills phonograph records for the same reason. One or tw...

Launch Audacity fresh.

Audacity > Preferences > Devices > Recording > select the iMic there.

Click once anywhere within the red recording meters and they should wake up and meter your voice.

Koz

<<<Moving Pad Sound Booth.>>> I have an odd problem with the design. One of the design constraints was there is only one piece of wood, multiplied six times for each wall. Each piece is the same and symmetrical. It doesn't matter where in the design you put it or which end to. You can make the walls...

Which material is truly amazing/stunning. They make a small, doorless sound booth out of that stuff on a convention or trade show floor. It has a spiral entranceway and you walk in cold with your identification badge and plastic shopping bag with manufacturer's literature. As you turn the corner ins...

Those are generally held together with solder -- hot melted lead and tin with a rosin cleaning agent. People who can manage soldered wire connections are getting to be a rare breed, but certainly your local TV repair shop can manage it and it's possible to find an amateur radio operator or electroni...

Since you have a "mature" machine, how full is your hard drive? Audacity will not run into a full or fragmented hard drive.

Koz

Does it still work on any of the older shows? If you pull down the six second piano solo from here... http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2.wav ...and play it in a fresh Audacity, is it still unstable? You can also get ratty operation if you added new filters or plugins. Did you? Can you temporarily pull...

Are you in Pause instead of Stop?
Koz