Audacity Forum

hole for the mic icon, So that's it. If you plug a mixed headset into a Mic-In (pink), the left earmuff may act like a microphone. The socket causes a cross-wire. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCLaptopSound-650.jpg http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCHeadset.jpg I'm not sure if there ...

I figured it out myself..thanks anyway.

How?

Remember this is a forum. Users helping each other. It's not a Help Desk.

Koz

The UCA202 looks like " USB Audio CODEC ." That's its USB name. Screen Shot 2018-06-10 at 10.11.26.png Plug everything up, wait for the computer to figure it out and them start or restart Audacity. Audacity checks for new stuff when it starts up. Go for the microphone window, select USB Au...

Eh.. what? Since nobody has any idea what's causing your problem, we should knock the system off center and see what happens. One of the conditions that can cause a delay in application of effects is the machine can't handle it. The obvious solution is strip the machine of extra jobs, restart, chec...

If you want hiss, you can do that with Generate > Pink Noise or Generate > White Noise. Generate it on a second track under the show and Audacity will add it to the show when you export. If you want to take hiss out, you can try the two-step Effect > Noise Reduction. https://manual.audacityteam.org/...

It does look like this, right?
Koz

Is it plugged all the way in? Sometimes a TRRS plug will stop one click short of fully seated.

Does it work with any other app? Which one?

Koz

"Realtek stereo mix" is listed as a recording source. Right. Next you do this, mention the exact problem at the top. What you did was start describing the middle of the problem wandering around what the goal was. Remember I asked you if you had a microphone? "I want to record interne...

Sometimes Tough Dogs respond to odd troubleshooting.

Can you make it worse? Open up Photoshop and a large picture, Excel, Angry Birds and two or three more. Does Audacity go into the trash bin?

Koz

She says about two or three words I think she says a lot more than that and all of it is covered up by your breathing. Audacity is not good splitting up a mixed performance into individual instruments, voices or sounds. That and a lot of other reasons it doesn't make a good surveillance recorder. Koz