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And what you're recording.

Koz

I don't see that we ever pointed you to the Crash Recovery Tools (and it may be too late). They may not be applicable, but they're the only game in town. You can't do it manually. Crash Recovery http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery If not, that's the show in the dustbin. Koz

The HiPass Filter is a "cliff" effect cutoff. Nothing lower than the listed frequency gets through. It's pretty brutal and sometimes you can hear it working because it can produce damage. The Equalizer tool lets you manage the attenuation or boosting of frequencies as you wish. The less st...

<<<The problem is gone. >>>

Did you restart the machine?

Koz

This is taking way too much work. What's the complaint? That the ring tone isn't loud enough and when you make it louder, it distorts? That's a common complaint for many music applications and juggling frequencies isn't the answer, past the obvious getting rid of the bass notes which no cell phone c...

You also should pay attention to the listing we did on the external sound cards that work OK with Audacity. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477 The Mic-In on your computer is expecting a weak, wispy, delicate mono microphone signal and you're feeding it a massive, powerful, l...

Do you have the red and white sound cables from your turntable plugged into the Mic-In of your computer? If not, what kind of turntable or music system do you have and exactly how is it connected? Model numbers are good.

Koz

Steve wrote a whole pathway there. Where did you get lost or stuck?

Koz

Since the microphone has no analog sound signal of its own, it depends on the computer to turn the USB signal into sound for you. Any time the computer has to think about something, it takes time and the slower the computer, the worse it is. Audacity has two settings in preferences: Hardware Playthr...

<<<Stereo recording may be nice, even if only one person is talking.>>> No, it's not. Back in the dark ages when Stereo FM first took off, they experimented with stereo performers on the air. It didn't last long. If you happened to lean over to pick up a piece of paper while you were talking, it sou...