Audacity Forum

O.K., Thanks all for the ideas. - I think I may start with a much better sound card & take it from there. -- This seems to be the most obvious cause, and place to start. -- Thanks.

Checked all that. - Gone over all plugs etc with clean cloth & WD40. - No improvement. - Have also sprayed out the source-monitor switch on the amplifier. -- Have always noticed that moving the software's volume control slider invokes a bit of chaff & crackling, like a dirty (real world) volume cont...

Had Audacity for a while with previous software, Ubuntu 9.10, and not a problem. Recently changed to Linux Mint 11, got a fresh download of Audacity, with a seemingly inbuilt problem. -- On pressing the record button even with no signal applied, one hears a faint chaff like sound which registers on ...