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I did it on my Mac, but maybe you can pick up a trick or two because I wrote it all down. USB Microphone http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/USB_Microphone.html Since you're on a Windows machine, you may also have to deal with the Windows Control Panel. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/...

Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away. Windows was never a multi-tasking operating system. The only people who think so have never used anything else -- or work for Microsoft, and some of them aren't talking. I'm pretty agnostic, I work on all three, but I'm always amazed the narrowing of tools and...

<<<I navigated to the location of the WAV file I wanted to import>>> Do you have Windows set to show you file extensions? How do you know you're trying to manage a WAV file? WAV and MP3 files are very specific types of files and not every sound file is automatically one or the other. Audacity can do...

I've seen partitioned drives on new machines where one small partition carries system restore and backup information. They usually try to hide this partition so the casual user doesn't try to damage any of this information or data by accident. That kind of thing is probably OK because the backup par...

This one's hard. You could get those symptoms if the two Audacities were recording two different audio feeds. 1.2.6 is recording the microphone digital signal directly. The worst that configuration can do is be clear but too low, a common complaint with very good quality USB microphones. However, if...

USB microphones bypass a lot of the Sound Card services since they deliver a digital bitstream not an analog audio signal. The only way I could get my USB microphone to work was to set Audacity to Mono. I don't think you can live mix that kind of microphone with anything else -- except in post produ...

<<<Thanks guys... yeah, I ran Skype for the whole show, as we were connected to TalkShoe (to enable a chatroom of sorts.)>>> This may be the answer to the question that pops up on the boards regularly. Multiple microphones and VOIP with sound effects coming from the computer all mixed into a podcast...

I didn't see any words like: "I removed the DC from all my clips before editing." It doesn't take very much DC level on your clips to create discontinuities in each cut. You can't hear DC (battery voltage) but you can totally hear when you change it which is what happens at each cut. You c...

Original Capture Masters or Edit Masters should be in the highest quality you can store. You can always go downhill.

Koz

Audacity will capture to a network drive if the network is fast enough and isn't busy doing anything else. Generally we frown on doing that because any Ethernet collision anywhere will kill the show. Video and audio happen in real time, not "hang on a second while I resolve a collision" ti...