Audacity Forum

Steve, Thanks. I must say I do not know enough about the technology to understand why this works as a workaround but I will take your word for it. Interestingly, on another PC I do the same thing but without this clipping problem and that PC has a 3 year old realtek soundcard whereas the PC with the...

Thanks for all your responses. However, I found another person with this problem on the forum, Nov 2 2007 - clipping audeo input problem. The solution there was to change the audacity setting from recording mono to stereo. And it seems to work. So thats what I am going to do. Does seem a bit strange...

A bit more info. I am using a desktop and line-in is selected for the sound card which is a Realtek. The clippings happen at exactly +/- ).5, so exactly half of the normal +/- 1.0 so I cannot see it is a question of adjusting levels somewhere, more that some setting needs to change. I have Audacity ...

Steve HI,

It is a Soundcraft Spirit LX7. If that helps.

My input is coming from a mixing desk and goes via the inline socket. The inline volume is set to max so that I can adjust the sound in via the mixing desk. Not sure where to look for setting the clipping levels for the mixing desk or the sound card.

When recording, the clipping happens at +/- 0.5 on the wave screen whereas I thought it shoud lhappen at +/- 1.0. Why is this and what can I do about it?