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Go back to the sound dialogue box. Play the tape. Is the level meter in the sound box showing green flunctuations? (You won't hear audio.) If not, you're not connected to the line in jack. If it does, You haven't set up the preferences (in Audio I/O tab) to match your physical setup.

I suggest exporting as an mp3 file rather than a WAV file. Considerably smaller HD space will be required. but lower sound quality. WAV files are useful because if you need to do more editing you still have a pristine audio file to work with rather than one that has been slightly mangled by mp3 com...

That sample shows quite a lot of clipping (recorded at too high a level) this may have something to do with it. Try moving the microphone further away from the guitar and see if that fixes it. If that's true, you must remove the amplifier that drives it too high or reduce the amplifier gain. If it ...

Don't use the mic input, use line in input. You'll need to set the line in as the default in the sound app in the control panel.



You also need to set up the preferences in Audacity accordingly in the Audio I/O tab.

<<<the pattern of droning in and out>>> Well, maybe, but the complaint isn't additional noise. The complaint is the performance volume changes erratically. It does bother me that you clearly don't have the computer wired right. Laptop PCs tend to not have Line-In (unlike Macs) and instead settle on...

Upon re-reading, I rather suspect a problem with the soundboard, not the snake cable. Your connecting the cassette isolated the problem.

stevethefiddle wrote:That sample shows quite a lot of clipping (recorded at too high a level) this may have something to do with it. Try moving the microphone further away from the guitar and see if that fixes it.

If that's true, you must remove the amplifier that drives it too high or reduce the amplifier gain.

I suggest exporting as an mp3 file rather than a WAV file. Considerably smaller HD space will be required.

Heh heh. Sounds like you have your mike set up as the default input, that's why you hear those sounds. I've never tried what you're doing, but try the microsoft sound mapper input at the preferences box.