Audacity Forum

Most USB devices like this run 44100, 16-bit, mono. It's the mono part that usually kills people. Unless you have an odd one, these devices are not Stereo.

Koz

There is another step that might help. I don't use Audio/Midi setup for the first pass. I go into Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input and see if I can get the little blue sound meter to work. Without that, the rest of the machine has no chance.

Koz

If you do catch serious oddities in 1.3.9, you can back up to 1.3.7 which I still use day to day. 1.2.5 is unsupported on new Macs. Audacity 1.3.7 -- Mac http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-macosx-ub-1.3.7.zip And yes, the irony didn't escape anybody that Stable 1.2.5 is actually unstable ...

<<<−6 dBm means 6 dB less than 0 dBm>>> Or -6dBFS (dB Full Scale). There are conversions from dBFS to other technologies, but they depend on where you're standing and what you're doing. Never content to leave things alone, even the digital measurements got a little fuzzy. That 400Hz tone you hear at...

Do you like to put dates in your filenames? Bad idea. Dash and Underscore are the only two punctuation marks allowed in filenames. Those two, upper and lower case letters and numbers. That's it. No other marks.

Write dates 20091201

Koz

That's not going to cure all your problems. If you horse down on your guitar with a good energetic strum, the pickup will deliver a signal way, way, way too powerful for the average computer Microphone Input. I suspect you're microphone connection is trying to protect itself from the hot sound level...

Where did you get the music for the original work? Live recording or "borrowing" from the internet?

Koz

What are the chances you have Mix-Out selected in Windows Preferences and you're listening to snippets and fragments of an internet radio station or other sound event on your machine? Can you identify the ghost voice at all? Audacity is not in the habit of adding to or modifying a performance unless...

Help tends to be a multi-user, highly managed event right here on the forum. That way the maximum number of people can benefit from the answers. <<<Or are actual songs locked from being edited?>>> That depends on where you got the music from which is pretty much the first thing I was going to ask an...

<<<Relax back in your chair and let your gaze rest on the bottom of the main Audacity window.>>> Which is completely at variance with how most of us work. I have a feature request posted to force "Time Remaining" to be visible at my option at any time. Nobody on a production crew is going ...