Audacity Forum

Audacity doesn't save sound files. It saves Projects which are more like a work in progress rather than a finished show. Is your show still open? You can make a sound file with File > Export > Export as...... It is recommended that you export work as WAV (Microsoft) before you try lesser quality fil...

We need to know more about "it." Which microphone? Who made it and what's the model number?

Koz

The difference between "Mix down to one channel for recording" and "Select the first channel of many for recording." The decision appears to be in Audacity because switching between services in Audacity seems to give the volume change. @FrankLepore This is why I recommend single ...

Where does the 6dB gain reduction come from if you do this dance wrong?

Koz

Which three-number Audacity?

Koz

It's a snap to make that message go away: Save a Project. Projects are Audacity's main product and reason for being. Exporting a sound file is a side issue.

I don't necessarily recommend saving a Project unless you need one, but that's what's happening.

Koz

Thanks for the complete information. Are you saving to an external drive? Go (top of desktop) > Computer. Control-Click Macintosh HD (or whatever you called it) > Get INFO. This is mine on the current machine. Screen Shot 2018-04-28 at 17.10.50.png Note capacity and available are significantly large...

To be clear, it used to work?

Which mixer is it? They make an Behringer X1222 usb and a Behringer QX1222 usb

Just below the equalizer? Main/Mix switch?

Koz

Amplify? Normalize? Neither one? Are you reading for audiobooks? ACX Audiobooks wants you to do three things at the same time. Peak, RMS and Noise. This is a quicky explanation of what those mean. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=297423#p297423 It's a common Home User problem to only g...

We need a few English words here. The little lights turn green during normal volume. If you get too loud, the lights will flash red. Gain indicators will light green when a signal at a certain level (–30dBFS) or higher is present. However, if the signal level exceeds –2dBFS, the indicators will ligh...