Audacity Forum

1.2.4 is positively ancient at this stage, and is no longer supported. The version currently recommended by all the experts in the forum is 1.3.11, which you can get from here. http://audacityteam.org/download/ It is still described as Beta, but it is more stable on many computer platforms than the ...

We will need a little bit more to go on;

What type of turntable and computer are you using, and how are they connected? Model numbers will help.

PO'L

If you have installed ffmpeg correctly, then when you click Edit > Preferences > Libraries, you will see the ffmpeg library version number in the preferences window. Having said that, I'm not sure whether .cwp is supported. It doesn't appear in the list of supported formats, which you can get by cli...

It sounds as though you might be recording from the laptop microphone instead of the turntable.

You need to have the turntable powered up and plugged in to the computer before starting Audacity.
Then in Edit > Preferences > Devices, you should have the recording device set to USB Audio Codec.

PO'L

As Koz says, if it is a USB turntable, i.e. the lead from the turntable plugs into a USB port on the computer, then, no, you don't need a preamp. You just plug the TT into the computer, set up Audacity and start recording. Records are made with the treble increased and the bass reduced, so that the ...

bobby3838 wrote:should the initally recorded LP sound close to the same as it would if played on it's own?

Absolutely.

But for us to help you, we would need a little more information: what type of turntable do you have, and how is it connected to the laptop?
Model numbers are good. More detail is better.

PO'L

Why would you want to go for a USB turntable? You already have a Marantz 6150, an Artcessories DJ pre-amp and a UCA202 sound card. That combination should be better than most, if not all, the USB turntables available out there. The sound is excellent like you said. But its not coming across in the r...

If you are using Windows Media Player to rip your CDs, there are two options which will let you import the files into Audacity without converting to mp3, which causes compression damage: 1. WMP 11 will allow you to rip to a WAV file, which you can import directly into Audacity. 2. WMP 10 will not su...

See this; http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_turntables
for connecting the UCA202. It is written for USB turntables, but applies to any USB device.

PO'L

Audacity was not designed to be used over a network. Its operation depends on having immediate disk access, and the delays which a network will introduce can cause all kinds of problems.

PO'L