Audacity Forum

Wrong answer.

The exported segment should sound exactly the same as the original music in QuickTime Player, iTunes and Audacity.

I'm almost out of ideas.

Go into iTunes > Preferences > Playback. Do you have Sound Check and/or Sound Enhancer turned on?

Koz

<<<I closed the project>>>

How?

Koz

Step one. Forget Audacity 1.2. 1.2 is seriously old, unstable, and no longer supported. Get Audacity 1.3.12 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

You're already on a slippery slope. Windows Media is a compressed file format, so the original show must have been enormous. How long was the show and was it stereo? You can reduce the export file size to almost half at the same quality by reducing the show to mono. The Export MP3 setting has a larg...

<<<It's not the pre-amp. I checked the pre-amp on another system and all works well >>

Made by whom? we know you have an insanely respectable microphone. Who made the equipment you plug it into -- the preamplifier?

Koz

Yeah. That's pretty open ended. Are you wedded to one computing platform? If you're careful, you can do passable work with the mic inside the laptop. We have people doing all their voice work with an unprocessed Mac internal microphone. Next up are all the various USB microphones and there are a wid...

One more point. Audacity 1.2 is no longer supported, patched, or updated. It frequently has troubles on modern computers. You can get Audacity 1.3.12 from here... http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can install both versions on your computer, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will ...

<<<It's funny that I've never seen any resolution posted. >>> It's very rare for the stereo, Line-In of a sound card to do this. It's common as dirt to have a mismatch like applying powerful stereo signals to the delicate Mic-In of a laptop. That's not broken. That's pure operator error. The solutio...

If it's a USB record player, you need to check your Windows Control Panels and make sure the playback is going to your speakers and not, in error, up to the record player.

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

Koz

This microphone is a sister to the Samson C01U. Guess what? It has volume problems, too. "I have to yell into the microphone".....etc. You need the ability to change the volume of the electrical signal before the digital converter, and the converter is in the microphone body. So the comput...