Audacity Forum

**Update** Sorry it's taken so long. Trouble on the homefront. ANYWAY, Koz, you've give me some great advice since i've been on the forum. You were right about the hard drive. It definitely needed defragging, and also, I was looking at the wrong hard drive in terms of since. The drive that my projec...

**Update** I uninstalled both versions of Audacity (1.2.6. & 1.3.6) as well as the plugins (including VSTs) and started from scratch using Audacity 1.3.6. This time Audacity just shuts itself down. No cute Windows Error Message. Before all of this, I did some playing around with the EQ and discovere...

I have 25.2gb of HD space remaining. I usually defrag when System Mechanic tells me to. I have it set to where it's supposed to do it automatically. I'm doing a deep analysis on the drive right now to be sure because I wouldn't have thought of defragging the drive. There was a time when Audacity wou...

In short, Audacity crashes when I use the Multiband EQ effect. I know, I know, use a different EQ, but I like the precision of the Multiband. And besides, how do I know this glitch won't happen with others? Has this ever happened to anyone else? I was able to use Multiband EQ quite frequently before...

<<If you get meters that smash up against zero and stay there while you play, then you are overloading the sound card. Sometimes it's not zero. The show will go up to some number on the meters and stay there smashing against an invisible barrier. Natural recordings are adjusted so the bouncing light...

So far so good. Gale, thank you so much for your input. I'm learning this whole recording process pretty much as I go, asking questions here and there and playing around with different tools. I know nothing of sample rates and resampling. I will check my soundcard to see the highest rate it can hand...

<<So you are recording from a "Line out" or a "direct out" from the amp? (rather than using a microphone to record the sound that comes out of the amp).>> Yeah. I've heard of mic-ing the amp, but I haven't tried it because I'm paranoid about outside sounds interfering with the recording. Where I liv...

No, I never touch Windows Media Player. If my obsessive game playing wasn't an issue, I'd leave Windows all together. I use Nero 7 (came with the DvD burner; first copy came with cd burner), but not in the method you described, which sounds quite interesting. In fact, I'm eying a copy on Amazon.com ...

<60 watts should rock.> Cool! I thinking I needed at least a 100watt amp like the Marshal I had years ago (Why did I give that up?). My neighbours hated me because of that amp. I'll probably get a 100watt anyway just to make some enemies. I am reasonably sure I'm plugged into the mic input of my sou...

This is probably a premature thread, as I've yet to sit down and start playing with settings, but I figured since I'm here... In short, the recordings of my come out sounding extremely muddy and just absolutely horrible. Too much bass, though I killed the bass on both my amp and my fx processor. Bas...