Audacity Forum

You know how songs have a beat? Well, the beat echoes back about one second later, very loudly. Actually the whole track does that -.- And it messes up the existing beat.

Yes, I'm using 1.3.9
Software Playthrough is not selected, though overdub is checked.

It's a headset microphone, and I'm listening to it through the headset.

Ehh. I got uber fed up and did a system restore to about two weeks back, changed nearly all the settings and changed them all back and yay, it's actually recording at an acceptable volume :D So the weird thing was after doing all that (still not working), I changed from Stereo Mix to FrontMic and wa...

Ahhh. I tried recording with music this time (I sing). I think I know what did the trick - I selected Stereo Mix as my recording device, and that worked out fine (Front Mic still doesn't work - it only picks up noises when I push the mic to very near my mouth and when I amplify it still has that ver...

Um, I don't exactly know what I clicked, but I followed the instructions in the link and made some changes and now it's fine! Thank you Steve!

So this is a microphone with a little round plug that plugs into your sound card? If so, check that you are plugged into a "Microphone" input and not a "Line" input. Do you know what sort of sound card you are using? Um, I'm not sure, but the plugs are green and pink, and I'm certain that I'm plugg...

Anyone? I really need help... ><

You need to get us a little closer. The advice changes a lot depending on the type of microphone you have and how it's connected. Do you have a laptop computer? Who made the microphone and what's the model number? You can post the address of the web site from where you bought it. Koz No, I'm using ...

One day I started to record with Audacity but the recording sounded like it was a distance away - there was an echo-y effect to it, plus it was abnormally soft (I had to amplify for MANY times and by A LOT before it was an acceptable volume). This was with Audacity 1.2.6. I thought there was somethi...