Audacity Forum

Is it a Shure X2U? http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477&start=20#p81588 Does the microphone take phantom power and did you turn Phantom Power on with the X2U +48 switch? Make sure the microphone needs it. You can create damage by putting phantom power where it's not wanted...

Set your Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Restart Audacity. Generate > Tone. Pick five or six seconds and any audible frequency. I like 440 Hz. Is the Project rate in the lower left 44100? It will probably arrive as a mono sound track. Export it to a WAV file. What does Windows think t...

Do you have a new Skype account?

Koz

What are your Audacity Preferences set to and how do you know you have a 48000 song? 48000, 16-bit, Stereo is the television sound standard.

Koz

Ummmm. The instructions say the mixer sends 23v phantom power to the microphone. My microphone takes 48v. I think 12 is the other common one. Does the microphone take 23v? Does it say so explicitly?

Koz

There is one desperation method test. Plug the microphone in and turn the phantom power on. Turn the top knob Mic Gain all the way up. Slide the channel fader all the way up. Now bellow into the microphone. HA!!! It should be possible to get the little microphone channel red Clip light to come on --...

Just to avoid traveling down the wrong road... Audacity does not save sound files. To get a sound file, you File > Export, not Save. Audacity 1.3 will allow you to change the sound format on Export. In Audacity 1.2, you have to change the project sampling rate with the little window at the lower lef...

Past your running out of computer power at some awkward times, you won't hear much difference between 16 bit and 24 bit. The reason to use higher bitrates is post production. If you intend to apply multiple filters and tools to the show, errors will appear sooner at lower bit rates and sampling freq...

Probably the worst part of all that is integrating Skype. Skype takes over both of the sound channels in your computer leaving nothing for recording or playing back segments of your show. You certainly can't stream while Skype is running. They both use the same network channels. Where did you get th...

<<<My turn table (and the cartridge) is not any better that the one I just bought, but I also needed the USB outlet and the tape player.>>> No you don't. You can plug the tape player Line-Out directly to the stereo Line-In of your Mac. The headphone out of the Mac will plug directly into the Line-In...