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Try selecting the "hw" option that corresponds to your microphone. (Unless you have additional audio devices connected to the computer, there will only be one "hw" option).

Which version of Audacity?
Which version of Linux?
What are you trying to record?
What are your settings in the device toolbar?

I suspect that it is a variation of this bug: https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534
Unfortunately we do not have a solution yet.

I'll add a note about what's happening on Bodhi Linux.

If you are only doing a few labels, then the easiest way is to click and drag on an audio track to make a selection, starting immediately above one label, and ending immediately above another. You can tell when you are exactly above the label by a vertical yellow guide line. You can then read the st...

Is Skype still running in the background? If so, shut it down completely, then restart Audacity (if it is running, shut it down and restart it), then try recording with "host" set to MME and the microphone selected as the recording device.

This is probably due to a new setting in Windows. Try this:
1) Open Settings
2) Click on Privacy
3) Click on Microphone
4)Turn on the Allow apps to access your microphone toggle switch.

After combining two stereo channels to mono, I used noticing a reduced level of the upper part of the original audio spectrum. I don't see that myself: tracks000.png I do see that the spectrum is 6 dB lower than the stereo version (as expected), but it appears to be 6 dB lower at all frequencies: w...

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Topic closed.

Look in "System Preferences > Sound", and select the "Input" tab.
Is the PreSonus Firestudio listed? If it is, select it and see if speaking into the microphone causes the meter to respond.

That description is below the download links.

captblackie wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:54 pm

On one of my tries the download option stayed in place and I was able to get it done.

So the issue is now solved for you?