Audacity Forum

Thanks a bunch for your reply! I'm as confused as you are as to why realtek picked up my mic okay and audacity didn't. I figured I'd need a preamp but hoped the need wouldn't be quite so prevalent as it's a much larger investment than the mic itself. Ah well. Time to face the music I s'pose. Thanks ...

I just plugged in my Behringer XM8500 for the first time and fired up audacity to start testing before recording some music. After playinng back my test recording (me simply saying "testing" into the mic), I found that it sounded more like a robot speaking gently and unintelligibly from about three ...