Audacity Forum

Perhaps you should consider migrating to Linux. The sound system on most modern Linux systems is a low level "driver" layer called "ALSA", with a sound server called "PulseAudio" above it. Audacity allows you to select the low level ALSA device OR the higher level Pulse...

It's quite common for Windows to set the level for USB devices very high. It's probably because Windows thinks the device is a USB microphone, so it sets the number of channels to 1 (mono) and adds a load of "gain" (boost) to the signal level. Look in the Windows Sound Control Panel to che...

Editing in Audacity is generally a case of "selecting" the audio that you want to act on, and then applying an action to that selected audio. The easiest way to select audio is to simply click and drag on the blue waveform. Other ways are described here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/...

Currently we have a haphazard mix of linear (0 to +/- 1.0) and dB labels. For example: Track Gain: Linear Amplification: dB Track scale (default): linear Meters (default): dB Pan / Balance: linear Normalize: dB Generators (built-in): Linear Contrast: dB Plot Spectrum: dB My suggestion is that we hav...

Is this a "straight off the mic" recording, or have you processed it? If it's been processed, please post a raw "straight off the mic" sample.

Turn off all the sound system "Enhancements" (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... hancements)
Windows is trying to help you by evening out the volume and reducing "noise", which is great for Skype, and terrible for recording music.

It's good to have space at each end of a recording. It allows you to trim the ends neatly without having nasty clicks and bumps at the start / end.

Pobinr wrote:why is it not a problem in GarageBand

Garageband has the ability to select which pair of channels to assign to the recording track. Audacity does not have that ability.

1] Analogue would lose quality as it involves going from D to A & back to D again. Yes, in theory, assuming that the Kemper isn't doing any analog processing. If the Kemper has an analog stage, then the analog outputs may come be before the S/Pdif. Either way, if there's an audible difference b...

Aponymous wrote:. Is there any way to add a slight delay to the start of recording, to avoid this?

No there isn't.

Aponymous wrote:Really annoying to have to go and snip that sound from the beginning, every single time I record anything.

Press the button more gently?