Audacity Forum

Just bought a new windows 7 computer. Dell 15r 8 gig/ram, and i5 processor. downloaded audacity and about half the time i start up the program i have what seems to be an overdriving input from my usb microphone. high grass level and any audio input is off the scale. other times its fine. my old comp...

I've recently bought the MXL studio 24 microphone and love it, Audacity works fine except if you want to lay down 2 or more tracks. the second track is choppy and heavy low end. any ideas? happens every time. i have version 1.3.13 beta of Audacity, running windows vista 2 gigs of ram