Audacity Forum

Does the Yeti MUTE light come on steady? The microphone is in Mute when the light flashes. Otherwise it signals everything is OK. Apple Desktop > Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Input. Is the Yeti there? Does the soundmeter jump when you speak or make a sound? Quit. Launch Audacity...

Focusrite 2i2 The Focusrite knobs turn colors to indicate recording levels. Can you get the active knob to ever turn green...or red. Green is OK To Go and Red is overload. It's not that unusual for home system to run turned almost all the way up. All the way up is dangerous. I get very low recoding...

If you're recording a one-person podcast, interview or other performance, you can do that on your phone while you're struggling with the computer. This is built-in Voice Memo app on an iPhone/iPod. It's an interview I did in a crowded restaurant at a table with four (or five) people. I just laid the...

occasionally it automatically skips back to a different line (the laptop mic). When I click ‘Re-scan audio devices’ in ‘transport’ Audacity picks up the hardware again. Recording stops, or has a drop out after only two or three minuets of recording. Audacity is losing connection to the microphone o...

Light Speed is too slow.....

Koz

frequencies above 20kHz are inaudible It's worse than that. The digital sampling rate has to support what you're doing and 44100 runs out of poop at 22KHz. Audacity disappoints scientists. Anywhere there is a choice between strict scientific accuracy and sounding good, audacity will pick sounding g...

When I go to record in Audacity, there is only static when I am speaking and my words are muffled, no static or background noise inbetween my words. Which sounds exactly like you're recording your laptop built-in microphone. Check the listing next to the microphone symbol in the Audacity upper menu...

I generally just move my face back from my mic. Problem solved.

If you have a way to solve the problem, then you're good.

Koz

As you're finding out, the file header, all that information at the beginning of the file can be different from the actual data. If you find two different methods of measuring the file and they say different things, chances are good that one is just looking at the header and one is analyzing the act...

Right. So that's just broken.

Koz