Audacity Forum

I didn't know that was what that function did. Thanks for the tip -- I will setup a project and try it out.

Compression, RMS and Peak Limiting, Oh My! Keeping your noise floor low (high signal to noise ratio) is helpful in situations like this. Good cables, great microphone preamps, good signal processing and proper gain at the proper time in the signal chain all make a great raw recording. Unless you ca...

It is looking like the connector on the computer is experiencing some malfunction (you changed microphones and the problem persists). Try the front microphone connector or a USB audio box with the same two microphones. All connectors have an expected use rate before eventually failing to operate. Yo...

Start playing with the settings in audacity and windows. There is probably a check-box that needs to be checked/unchecked. Windows doesn't make it easy when Microsoft releases new versions and things get changed behind the scenes. Really analyze the settings by having all settings windows opened -- ...

I would bring each track in to audacity, normalize, then mix it into the master. I've done this for long mixes. I find that some mp3 files import with peak amplitudes above the maximum, these require the amplify filter to bring the peaks back into the usable range. I more often than not, export as f...

My recent experience with windows and audacity is new drivers and/or system updates can frack a working system (NVIDIA video driver). I would try a system roll back a month or two at least to test if it might have been one of those issues.

Could be a mechanical issue -- bad cable, bad circuit. Strange a mono input microphone is producing one channel of noise.

Maybe you can post some screen shots of your settings in windows and audacity. I usually find it is one check box somewhere causing the problem.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION -- Problem and Solution Audacity 2.1.3 Executable Install, Build Date March 8, 2017 Problem: Video Driver conflict HP Pavilion dv9000 Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 video hardware DUAL BOOT Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and Windows 10 Creative Labs Sound Blaster Model SB027...