Audacity Forum

<<<I'm getting told that it's a problem with Audacity>>> And they're probably right. Audacity doesn't support ASIO drivers. That and MP3 are licensed and paid software. The problem with ASIO is nobody made a work-around. If you can't find Windows drivers for your product, that's the way it is. Koz

The green bouncing bars represent the sound volume on playback and the red bars on record. The blue wavy lines represent the actual sound sample points drawn as a graph. If you keep magnifying the blue waves, eventually, you'll get down to the PCM sample points which look like little squares on the ...

Another good tool. You know you got a fresh Audacity when it asks you "English?" at first birthday.

Koz

<<<2. Open audacity.cfg in a text editor and remove all the content except the line >>> That can be pretty dangerous. TextEdit wakes up in Rich Text form, not plain text. I can imagine creating a lot of problems that way. Audacity creates a lot of problems by starting up in 32-bit. 44100, 16-bit, St...

If your Mac is pretty old, the 1.2 preferences can be a little hard to find.

Trash Mac Audacity Preferences
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... =10#p34670

Koz

<<<I got rid of 1.2.6 - went up to 1.3.7>>>

Ding! First mistake. You can put both Audacity 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine as long as you only use one at a time. Open up Audacity 1.2 and see where your preferences are. Copy those over to 1.3. Can you roll your machine back?

Koz

Maybe I do know this one. Audacity 1.2 wakes up in mono, not stereo. Reset in Preferences, then restart Audacity.

Koz

If you go the comparison route, all you really need is to subject the meter and the microphone to the same sound. Write down the difference between the two readings. The difference should be consistent. The computer is always 12 dB low. Or the meter is always 15dB higher. Something like that. Since ...

That was in dBSPL. Sound Pressure Level. That one is an absolute and there are special meters that can measure it and tell you numbers...like this. http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=sound%20meter&origkw=sound%20meter&sr=1 Work has the digital one and I have the analo...

No. Like said. I've never seen this setting before and it may be days before I can get on a machine long enough to mess with it. We'll see if anybody else has any ideas. Intel Mac with Leopard?

Koz