Audacity Forum

<<<and was told all those options would be better quality than the music itself.>>> Actually, we said you were accidentally using the built-in microphone in the computer to capture the shows and pretty much any straight digital version of capture would be better than that. You should capture and Exp...

<<<I can place it an inch from the guitar and it still barely picks it up.>>> That's not what I said to do. Stand right in front of the microphone and yell. !HA! very loudly. You should be able to get the red overload light to come one. If it does, the problem may be somewhere else. If it doesn't, t...

<<<I conducted an interview for some research I am doing, and recorded the interview using Audacity. I replayed it after to see if it worked as I hoped. So far so good. That was less than 2 weeks ago.>>> About that. You said you played the interview back to see if it was OK, but you never said you s...

You can delete the shortcut in the dock along the bottom. That doesn't delete the program. Go > Applications > Audacity (depending on how you installed it) and drag a new copy down to the dock.

Koz

Page 15 of the manual. Forget the computer for a second. You should be able to yell into the microphone and get the red overload light to come on. This is just a test. You won't damage anything as long as you don't try to record that way. It's possible your USB connection isn't up to the task. Not a...

Any reason you're not placing the microphone opposite the hole? The strings don't generate the air movement, the body and hole does. USB microphones are low. They have to be because they have no sound mixer to adjust levels during the performance, so they have to never overload. Overload and clippin...

The first person speaking in that podcast is Waaaaaaay too close to the microphone. Is that the headset? Pull the microphone capsule away from your lips and twist or slide it so it's about 45 degrees to the left or right and about one or two inches from your lips. If you spit, you should not be able...

We can't tell from the posting what the problem is. Audacity used to work just fine and one day you lost your show? New live performances stopped recording? You saved your work and it vanished?

Koz

I'm not one of the Windows elves, but I can predict what they're going to say. Can you find a model number on the microphone and preamplifier? Any information including what kind of computer. Laptop?

Koz

<<<I get finished editing I will put on my sunglasses and look out into nothing>>> I leave the dirty cup in the sink and go to the beach. They allow fires at night on the beach around LAX. <<<I can't tell that it's made any difference, or I've made the audio worse than before.>>> Now that we beat yo...