Audacity Forum

That's what I thought. If I plug a "native" USB sound device into my Mac, the Audacity input level control goes to max and gets stuck there. Screen Shot 2018-05-21 at 17.13.37.png Meanwhile, the volume settings in Audio MIDI Setup vanish. Screen Shot 2018-05-21 at 17.12.46.png So the syste...

I open some of my files

Just some of them?

Does Windows have a setting where you can tell it what to use?
Koz

recording slider set to the maximum value of unity I'm surprised you were allowed to adjust the Audacity toolbar slider at all. It usually goes all the way up and gets stuck there if you plug in a USB digital device. Did you load the driver software and are you capturing and recording in stereo? Th...

I cleaned up ambient sounds How did you do that? If you had enough room or other environment noises, suppressing them can change the voice quality. Noise Gate in particular can give a weird, clipped, "out of body" sound. Stiff values of Noise Reduction can give you honky, talking into a w...

I think it best to stick to the technical side without bringing up personal performance issues. That's just a generic comment that high-pitch perception goes away as you get older. I don't hear any problems with your clips. Further, theatrical content is entirely between you and the client. I don't...

Oh, wait. It's a Windows 8 Desktop. I would still expect to find the soundcard in there somewhere. Did you build the machine? If you build it yourself, you don't have to put in a soundcard.

Koz

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html Small note here, recording material from the internet is frowned on for copyright violations, etc, so computer makers are...

it just seems that the input is muted somewhere and I can't find where. I think it's more serious than that. Where is the laptop built-in microphone? Laptops nearly all have built-in microphones and speakers and they should appear in the Windows sound panels. When you plug in your headset, you shou...

Here. I'm making this up as I go along. Right click the speaker icon.. Win7-RightClickSpeaker.jpg Select Recording devices . That top one is actually the stereo UCA-202 interface with a sound on it (click the graphic). Win7-SoundControlPanel.jpg The data device names don't have to track the maker or...

What are you recording? So you are recording your headset microphone? That's important. You didn't say that anywhere. the audio jack has a headset symbol so it should work for mic input as well as output. If your instructions agree with you, then I do, too. I know of three different headset configu...