Audacity Forum

When you say it has a chipmunk sound do you mean that the your track is playing back too fast thus sounding like chipmunk (ususally what people mean when they say chipmunk)? if so this is usually a sample rate problem and you may have changed a setting by accident. make sure that your sample rate ar...

You cant record over an existing track (unless the newer versions can). There is no need to. you just record onto a different track and mix the two together. once youve got the mix right you can export it as a wav. or mp3 file and this will turn it into a single file. if for whatever reason you want...

As far as i can remember if you have recorded as a stereo track you will have 2 identical (or pretty close to) waveforms and on the left you will only have one set of gain and pan sliders etc. if you have two copies of a mono recording each wave form will have its own set of gain and pan sliders etc...

you ca here some peoples efforts with audacity in this trhead

http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3238

hi there, could be hard drive noise Audacity writes to disk roughly every 6 or 12 seconds, depending on your settings. If you hear a funny noise in the background that's relatively consistent every 6 - 12 seconds, it means that your soundcard is picking up the noise from your hard drive. See Improvi...

Hi, Do you mean you want to make the storybook (ie you will read the story and record it in audacity). You will not need any other software apart from your pc and audacity to do this. All you need to do is talk into the mic, record it, then export your tracks as wav files (or mp3) then burn these fi...

Hi Read this it should help explain whats going on http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues here is a quote "but in fact the sources offered are governed by the drivers of the sound device that is currently selected as the "Recording Device" on the Audio I/O tab of Preferenc...

You mean playback is faster, or that playback starts at normal speed and then speeds up after a few seconds, or that you have multiple tracks that are not lining up, ie some play faster than others? How fast is it speeding up? some suggestions this is from the link http://audacityteam.org/manual-1.2...

The sizes are all fine, guitar lead goes in one end & the other end plugs into my mic socket Im pretty sure you should be plugging into the "line in" not the mic in socket if your laptop has one (i know nothing of laptops). Can you test your setup elswhere? say plug your guitar into an amp using yo...

What are you trying to record and how. I am confused because you say you cant record but then you say it records through my Mic and thus gets my voice and every other noise around me. If you are recording your voice through a microphone then it will pick up other room noises. thats what mics do. You...