Audacity Forum

<<<out from the amps out speakers >>> Try this. Turn the computer mixer and Audacity all the way up. Now reach over and turn the sound amplifier way down. You can launch Audacity and click once inside the record meters and they will start work so you can set sound levels without needing to make a fu...

You may need to burn 1.2 off completely and install 1.3. Audacity 1.2, alone of all the versions saved its preferences in The Dreaded Windows Registry. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Audacity_Preferences So if you really do have damaged preferences, you need to get rid of them before y...

<<<saved it as a .wav file, and stored it in "My Music " folder.>>> We need to be really careful about our English words here because Audacity doesn't work like other programs. Audacity will not Save a sound file. To get a real WAV file, you have to use Export. File > Export As WAV. If you...

When you got done with the first song, did you Export As WAV and then start a new Audacity? How did you record the succeeding tracks?

Koz

It's distorting anyway. Windows machines can do this when you plug a high level sound signal into the microphone input. Describe your system. Part numbers help. Details.

Koz

They said it didn't matter what the settings were or where the controls were set. After the switching and volume controls, etc, etc, is the final output amplifier. There are no controls on it and it comes on the instant the amplifier is powered up. If one of the power transistors or any component in...

<<<However, the simplest (even if very rough!) way is the one I found, that is, to record my voice through the microphone and the other person's voice always through the microphone from the speakers>>> Which would make the person at the other end crazy. This setup sends their own voice back to them ...

<<<release a version of Audacity >>> Audacity is a complete slave of the computer that's running it. <<<Three people singing with other instruments also being fed into the software>>> But you're not, are you? There's a computer in the way. Although the software will cheerfully handle 16 tracks of au...

<<<Then I get "Error: is directory write-protected or disk full?" (where neither the file nor the directory are read-only, and the disk has loads of free space)>>> True, but you can also get that error if you're trying to manage files or folders with forbidden characters. Any slashmarks in...

Audacity is not a very good converter. You told Audacity to play a sound file that it had no idea how to manage. See if Olympus has any conversion software available, or you might be able to convert the sound in Super or Switch download.

Assuming you're on a PC. You didn't say.

Koz