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I doubt a new cable would help We did notice other adjacent problems. Almost always, people would change the cable and the whine would change . Nobody ever had the whine go away . I don't have any machines with the whine problem, so I can't give you part numbers for how to fix it, other than a Desp...

Dueling posts. I doubt a new cable would help. It's usually a computer with ratty USB service. The computer supplies 5 volts up the cable to run the keyboard, mouse or whatever you plugged in. The problem comes when you plug in a microphone adapter. You try to run a super-sensitive microphone amplif...

MXL-MICMATE PRO Most of the time, an interface with 48volt Phantom Power is immune to this problem. The maker goes through the trouble to create a clean, well-behaved 48 volts to run the microphone. You would have to be insane not to use that service to run the sensitive internal amplifiers. So if ...

If you have "standard" frying mosquitoes we published a filter for it and you shouldn't need anything more. multinotch.ny The whine sounds like this. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/USBMicrophoneWhineClip.mp3 What causes the problem is an interaction between a "home version"...

My keyboard is connected from the headphone socket. I have "Y" cable with half going to the speaker sound system in the room and the other half to the computer for recording. http://www.kozco.com/tech/organfinale.mp3 MIDI is machine control. If you have the software, you can make the compu...

You have three competing requirements: Terrific sound divorced from the environment, no user environment isolation, cheap and inexpensive. Write back when you find something that meets your needs, and/or tell us how you did it. I can blue sky one of the requirements. I bet I can make a small box sou...

I don't know they work on Windows machines, but I can try it later. They do. I plugged them into the back of my Win7 machine and they run just fine. This machine has a surround soundcard, so I actually plugged them into Front Left and Right. I believe that's the default Stereo connection for normal...

the creation date has varied. To what? My machines have a creation data and a last changed date. Are you sure you're looking at the right one? Which Windows? Does your Windows have a Get Info? [time passes] My Win7 machine brings forward "Date Modified." You can get the creation date by r...

Audacity checks for devices when it starts. Restart Audacity with the microphone already plugged in, or Transport > Rescan...

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You should probably know that audio inside Audacity doesn't overload. Audacity converts incoming audio to a special format (32-bit floating) that doesn't stop at 0dB. Audacity does that so multiple effects and filters one after the other don't destroy the show. For example, in the Audiobook Masterin...