Audacity Forum

We're a bit confused by that. As it's recording, we can see a "wave meter" that has a volume symbol. It's always green and says -21. this is not where i meant sorry if i misled. check out the image at http://audacityteam.org/about/images/recording.png. directly on the left of the wave form, i.e on ...

Do some technical problems begin to occur once you reach a certain number of tracks? you need to have good hardware to do lots of tracks. i have only a basic computer and the inbuilt sound card and if i do more than eight mono tracks i start to get bad latency issues. ie the track i record graduall...

Problem...it's like sounds too loud...distorted. have you tried reducing the input volume when you record? (there is a slider bar near the top left of the screen with a mic icon i think) When you record in audacity make sure that the soundwaves remain between +1 and -1 otherwise this will cause dis...

It is helpfull if you provide info on what you are trying to record, the gear you are using and anything else you think may aid someone in helping you, more info is a lot better than none. First i would check all the simple things such as , are all cables still attached, can you hear what you are tr...

Its probably the type of cd you are using and what you are playing it on. Most old cd players dont read burnt cds, some of the new cd will read recordable cds (CDR) but not re-writable cds (CDRW). Some cd players are designed to read all types. (for example i have a tiny 40$ cd player that plays eve...

DId you download it into the same folder that audacity is in or a different one?

dochiphop, you need to also download the LAME MP3 encoder with audacity if you want to export Mp3 files. Go to the below link if you are using windows and you will see it in the optional download section http://audacityteam.org/download/windows If your using Beta then go here and do the same http://...

have you tried filling the blank hole in your guitar track with silence rather deleting that part of the track and having it as empty. maybe thats the prob.

sounds like your singing along to the backing track through speakers instead of headphones hence the microphone is picking up the background music coming from the speakers.

Also, you can get around not having a bounce by copying the newly mixed track, then using the Undo feature, then pasting the mixed track back into the project. It's annoying, but it works. Not sure i understand this, are you saying to copy a track into another project to reduce the load while recor...