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What kind of computer and who made the speakers?

Koz

This is the forum for Audacity the sound editor. Did you post in the wrong place?

Koz

You can stop plugging the powerful, stereo performance sound signals into the tiny, wispy, delicate mono Microphone-In of your laptop. Did I hit it? Most Windows Laptops are business machines even if you didn't buy them that way. They're designed to plug a headset into the side and make Skype busine...

We reviewed several external USB sound cards.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Look for one tht has good Stereo Line-In.

Koz

You might find some value in Effect > Click Removal. That's designed to suppress clicks and pops on phonograph records, but I think it just works by sensing very high level and reducing it.

Worth a shot. Past that, I got nothing.

Koz

Did you notice that we've been pushing you off to Audacity 1.3.11 at every opportunity? There's a reason for that. A lot of the diagnostic and critical repair tools in 1.3 are considered the finished and working tools. Audacity 1.2, not so much. I was going to point you at Noise Removal as an experi...

And just so we're crystal clear, Latency is the fixed (usually) delay between you singing live and the track played back to you for matching. You can adjust Audacity 1.3 to play, for example, the recorded file slightly early, so by the time your voice arrives through all the electronics, everything ...

<<<you can monofy them later if needed>>>

That's good. Can I use that?

Koz

In case we never got to tell you, all these tools are under the black down arrow to the left of the track, not at the top of Audacity.

And don't fog the issue with other quality problems. Let's get the basic tools to work first, then we'll deal with your broken sound card.

Koz

Or it could be your computer gasping for air once a second as it tries to find empty hard drive space on a fragmented drive. Error check and defragment early and often. Defrag -- Right Click Start > Explore > Right Click Local Drive C: > Properties (Used, Remaining) > Tools > Error Checking & De...