Audacity Forum

<<<Then do another re-install.>>> You may not need that last step. Close Audacity, delete the cfg file, relaunch Audacity. It should ask you "English?" when it starts. The meter toolbar is an option under either View or Preferences depending on the Audacity Version. You can turn all the to...

You get crunchy, dense sound when you speak, right? Close Audacity. Windows Sound Recorder > Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Entertainment Record with that software. Is it still dense and crunchy? Has this headset ever worked? It's a fairly normal headset except for the enhanced noise cancellati...

<<<take that windoze talk somewhere else>>> Yessir. <<<man needs JackOSX.>>> Possibly. Two problems I can see: It's version 0.83 and people who hate Beta software will need to pay attention. Tiny packages like this tend to have limited testing. What happens if I load JackOSX on a machine running Wir...

Many Windows machines try to self-manage the sound levels because they're business machines and they're expecting you to make a Skype call to another office. This doesn't work too well for sound production, so you need to dig in your sound setups and turn that off. <<<When I record clean, the playba...

Doesn't Dazzle have its own capture software package? If Windows doesn't recognize the device as a stand-alone sound device, then you're pretty much stuck. Audacity is a complete slave to Windows. Isn't Dazzle a really old device? I think I had one ten or fifteen years ago. You may need to get the V...

You can try giving us a model number here and there. USB headset?

Koz

This begs the question of whether you should be using Projects at all. No, probably not. People keep Saving Projects thinking they are getting sound files and they're not. Audacity doesn't save sound files. If you want a standard, stable sound file that you can archive, back up, or email to your mum...

There are a lot of trade-offs in compression. Almost all audio (and video) compressors are destructive. As the filesizes go down, the damage goes up. I think if you tell an encoder to create a "perfect" MP3, the compression is maybe 2 to 1 and the file sizes are very close to where they we...

You also have Windows set to record Mix-Out or What-U-Hear instead of the microphone. Mix-Out is a construction that lets you record everything that appears in your headphones. Everything. It's normally used to record internet radio shows. Now you just need to figure out which Windows control to tur...

Close everything. Plug in the microphone. Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Audio > Input. Select the microphone and make sure the sound level meter bounces when you talk. Close the panel. Launch Audacity and... Audacity > Preferences > Audio I/O and another panel I forgot. Set for 44100, 16-b...