Audacity Forum

Are your Audacity Preferences set to Mono? Audacity comes out of its first installation set for mono, not stereo. This burns everybody.

If you're on a PC:

Edit, Preferences, Audio I/O, Recording, Channels.

Reset for 2 (Stereo)

Koz

<<<Is there any particular file endings that are unique to audacity other than .au and .aup?>>> And those two are only in the project folder. No. The exports are .wav or .mp3, etc just like everywhere else. The program on a Windows machine is an .exe file. On a Mac it's .app. I can tell you that in ...

<<<I have always used just the Line In connection>>>

Forgive me. You said you were recording a microphone performance.

<<<I thought it was Audacity.>>>

Audacity is a window through which you see your computer problems.

Koz

<<<did you like that as a career?>>> I did like it. I got a lot of stories. I picked up Alan Greenspan's wife once. What. Alan Greenspan is married to Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. She was the correspondent on a news story on Pennsylvania Ave in Washington. I was one of the engineers. The police need...

I have an excellent idea why its doing that. Lame has a setting for Minimum Duration. It has to do with compression efficiency. Lame is a huge program with hundreds of variations and settings. Audacity brought one or two settings out for you to mess with and preset all the rest--or left the rest in ...

I know of no limiters. Audacity is standing on the sound services and analog to digital converters of the computer. If the digital converter chips won't generate audio numbers over a certain value, You're pretty much stuck. You can do it in post, right? Export the performance as a WAV file and then ...

The Project File/System has to save all the UNDO levels. It's not allowed to forget anything. However at any time, you are allowed to Export to WAV... and that file, big as it is, will only contain the parts you want. You can then open that new file and continue editing. A Project is not a show. [/u...

Television/Video

Koz

I posted a step-by-step for microphones.

http://kozco.com/audacity/USB_Microphone.html

Koz

I wonder if you're listening to an electronics error rather than the actual connection. Have you tried plugging something like this... http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102970&cp=&sr=1&origkw=1%2F8+to+1%2F8+audio+12+inches&kw=1%2F8+to+1%2F8+audio+12+inches&pa...