Audacity Forum

It wouldn't surprise me if you could still buy Scotch 808 or 809. But don't give up yet. Is there a little light on the body of the mic if the phantom power is OK? Does the preamplifier have a place to plug headphones, and is the sound clean at the preamp while the computer is creating damage? You c...

My vast six-second piano solo will tell us a lot. Your exported segment should sound exactly like the larger sound file it came from.

Koz

It's one very common cause because the entire civilized world is trying to do stereo music production on a Windows Laptop, and Windows Laptops don't lend themselves to doing this. Did you do something seemingly divorced from audio production like get a new Skype account? Skype and possibly other &qu...

I bet it's not Audacity. I use Audacity with multiple different USB microphones and the volume is just fine. Did the microphone come with a software package or driver to change characteristics independent of the audio program? Can you make it worse? If you can, it means you do have the tools, they'r...

This isn't a "normal" problem, I'll give it that. Can we assume you can open up the wav selection export in a freshly started Audacity and it sounds damaged? It sounds damaged in Quicktime Player and iTunes, right? What are the Audacity settings in Preferences? 44100, 16-bit, Stereo? Downl...

This is very common, but what usually causes it is somebody plugging their high-level stereo show into the Microphone Input of the sound card instead of Line-In. Mic-In overloads very easily and you can't reduce the sound level with the volume controls.

Koz

Audacity AUP files aren't sound files. Try exporting As WAV and post two or three seconds. It could be a transformer or it could be you live over an air conditioner or vent system that never goes off. Where, in general, are you? That will tell us which power frequency to look for. I live in the US w...

I wonder if you could hear the jammer? The interference we get is a raucous buzz. No notch filter is going to take that out. You have a new performer in your show. Rich, woolly tones like that take hundreds of notches. There'd be no show left when you got done. I was talking to someone on the sixth ...

Do post back when you find out what happened. You know you posted in the Audacity 1.2 forum, right? As a fuzzy overall cause, you have too many sound pathways open at once. Dalek Voice can be gotten by mixing one voice twice, one slightly delayed with the other. You get comb-filtering effects in the...

A good ground zero is to set everything -- Audacity Preferences and the device -- to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Restart Audacity. See if that doesn't help.

Koz