Audacity Forum

first of all thank you for responding! :D i recorded the first track with the electret, and immediately went to record another track with the same mic and it did not work. so technically it's the second time? all this happened within the same hour (first, i recorded a mess around test track and it w...

yes, i tried re-booting almost immediately. i don't use skype or anything like that. this is the first i'm using a mic with my laptop, if that helps, also the mic doesn't seem to work with microsoft sound recorder either anymore so it must be a wrong setting or something like that i'm still scratchi...

Thank you. Sorry about that. when I said Line in I meant the Mic in. i had no trouble for the first hour or so, i even made an mp3. now the program shows no mic signal, i see no wave form and the red bars won't move. it's all set to sigma tel, i've set the prefrences for mme sigma tel stero 2, just ...

i downloaded the audacity 1.3 beta yesterday and it worked fine. i'm running windows xp on a dell laptop. the mic i'm using is an old electret mic (i couldn't tell you a serial no. sorry) and i was using as a line-in source rather than a usb. well, like i said everything WAS working fine i recorded ...