Audacity Forum

And I'm guessing that it also sounds badly distorted? My guess is that it was recorded far too loudly, and is damaged beyond repair. If you could post a short sample (just a few seconds) in WAV format, then we can tell you if there is any chance of recovering anything useful. See here for how to att...

krekli wrote: the sound starts going mental and really weird.

In what way "really weird"?

Any recommendation on hardware that interfaces with a PC that would work better? No reason to not stick with the Scarlett 2i4. As Koz wrote, you can use a mixer before the interface, but there's really no need unless you are using more than 2 mics at the same time. Once you have split the stereo re...

I've found the problem. Doesn't happen on Windows, but could account for why we have been seeing a number of Mac users unable to launch Audacity (because it's already running). Audacity "should" handle this in rather a clever way. What should happen, (if not for the bug), is that if Audaci...

Definitely a bug here. Not sure at the moment if only on Linux (the code forks with different behaviour for Windows), but definitely a bug on Linux.

This is interesting - I've looked at the code, and it appears that Audacity "should" give an error message, but doesn't. This was a surprise to me because I don't recall that ever working (though I don't generally try starting Audacity when it is already running). I may have more informati...

even when I use both mics, one shows up on the left channel and the other on the right when I select stereo in Audacity That's precisely what is supposed to happen. That's what a "stereo" recording is. If you want two mono recordings (one from each mic), then the procedure is: 1) Record a...

Leave the settings in the Windows Sound Control Panel for recording "2 channels (stereo)", and in the device toolbar, select "1 channel (mono)" when using only channel 1 of the device, or "2 channels (stereo)" when using both channels of the device.

Where does the 6dB gain reduction come from if you do this dance wrong? I think it's a driver issue. If you consider the signal chain: Hardware -> Drivers -> Software When the number of channels matches in Hardware and Drivers and Software, then there is a straightforward mapping of either: Hardwar...

There is an option to not prompt if the project is empty. See: "Show Warnings/Prompts for Saving empty project".

If you deselect that option, then you can close a project without the warning by first deleting all tracks in the project.