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But in my stash room..I have a 1971 Pioneer SA-1000 I have not used for decades..hey that was a lot of power back then. 70 watts RMS. LOL But it has a slide-switch to disconnect amp from pre-amp. Think I'll connect it and start transferring the jillions of songs. Do you have contact cleaner spray, ...

Have a look at this page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Tutorial_-_Copying_tapes,_LPs_or_minidiscs_to_CD If you have a good turntable and pre-amp I'd suggest you use those. Get a "dual RCA to stereo mini plug" cable to plug from the output of your preamp to the line in...

Storer wrote:You may be able to control what you want this way: Menu -> Edit -> Preferences... and select Spectrograms.

That preference controls the Spectrogram track view. It doesn't affect the Analyse > Spectrogram function.

-- Bill

You say "too much bass". Are you sure it's not a case of "not enough highs"? Have you tried cleaning the heads on your cassette deck? What do you hear when you plug your headphones into the cassette deck? If it sounds the same there as it does coming out of Audacity then the problem is the deck, not...

Click on the downward-pointing arrow in the track panel beside the track name. Select "Split Stereo to Mono". You now have two mono tracks. Delete the bottom one (the bad one) by clicking the close box [X] on that track. You now have the left channel only. If that's good enough for your purposes, fi...

The only way I can see this happening is if you have accidentally selected a very short section of audio at the start of the first track. When you tell Audacity to record the second track it records only for as long as the current selection. Try clicking the Skip To Start button, then try recording ...

Have a look at this thread.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6655

--Bill

Boaz:
I'm surprised that 1.2.5 will even run on your MacBook Pro. I'd strongly encourage you to upgrade to 1.3.9.

Audacity can monitor without recording - just click on the record meter (at least, it can in 1.3.9 - another good reason to upgrade).

--Bill

The UFO202 has a built-in phono pre-amp (for directly connecting a turntable). If you are connecting the output of your mixer, make sure you have the input switch set to Line.

-- Bill

These microphones

http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/XM8500.aspx

are also dirt cheap. Just treat it gently. I've used them, and they're not bad.

-- Bill