Audacity Forum

i dont have any way to record the mic unconnected..... when i recorded an hour ago, with my superior mic, that 'whummpp'...'whummmpp' sound was heard about every 6-7 seconds. when i recorded the sound in my room 5 minutes ago,with my inferior mic, .inexplicably enough, there was just the low static ...

when i record my live music on audacity, guitar and vocals, i noticed a low static sound in the background... and an occasional "whumppp" sound, which i assumed was my breath hitting the mic. so i decided to just record the sound in my room. i stood far from the mic, remaining absolutely still. all ...

prior to a recent computer cleaning, i was able to send wav files to my friends, as email attachments, and they were able to open these attachments. however, i had to download audacity and lame again, and now when i send email attachments they are unable to open them. there is no pop-up bar to advis...

well i appreciate the help, ill give your suggestions a shot. thanks.

well the brand name of the mic is TAKY(udm-606 impedance 600), it is plugged in directly to my computer monitor, no preamps or anything, im just recording my voice and my acoustic guitar right now. i am getting sound and volume, but probably half of what it should be.

i am recording original compositions with a professional mic plugged into my dell dimension 3000 computer, i have the microphone input level raised to 8.0, i have tried recording in stereo and mono, the volumes on my control panel are also maximized, but when i playback my recording, or burn it to c...

i have downloaded the LAME program so i can transfer my wav file to mp3, but after audacity asks me where it should look for the lame program, and i say , 'my documents' i get a pop-up that sais, audacity cannot open mp3 file. any idea's what im doign wrong? jeff.

Hmmm....i rightclicked on the 'show volume control' option. all i got is a popup window that read as follows...."displays indicator in the task bar that you can use to change your audio hardware's playback volume. this setting is unavailable if youcannot change the volume with your software . with s...

i went to audacity preferences, turned off the sound playthrough option. my microsoftsound mapper option was already engaged. still no sound though. i went to the audio area of my control panel, where it has the 2 options, a} use only preferred devices and b} show volume control the strange thing is...

it just sais, windows NT, windows 98. with an intel pentium2 processor.its probably the older edition. And i have no cd player attachment, its just the basics.