Audacity Forum

richsears1 wrote:electric kit going through microphone jack. works a treat until i put in a click track

Ensure that you have the mic input selected in the device toolbar and not "Stereo Mix" and not "Sound Mapper".

richsears1 wrote: I then press record and record a drum beat

How do you do that?

purpledragonpi wrote:On the Acer, the driver version for Stereo Mix is 10.0.10586.0 10/29/15 and does not work.

Check on the Acer website to ensure that you have the latest drivers for your exact model of laptop and Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit depending on which version of Win 10 you have).

Aron Times wrote:don't know the benefits and drawbacks of 99% of the settings that I can change

The defaults are generally a good bet

I doubt that any settings in Audacity will have a significant effect on the available recording time.

Aron Times wrote:Any suggestions on how to salvage this voiceover?

Unfortunately no. There's not really any way to fix that.
You could possibly make it a bit less painful by using the equalization effect to lower the high frequencies, but that will also tend to make it sound muffled.

Which version of Audacity? (look in the Audacity menu > About Audacity). Are you referring to Brian Davies's Click Repair application? If you are exporting as 16-bit WAV, ensure that the file name is valid for a WAV file and ends with the file extension ".wav" Has the sofware became corrup...

What the heck happened? Did I click a button by mistake? For some reason, the audio stream became "de-synchronised". Rather than the sound system delivering a continuous stream of audio data, there are small gaps in the audio stream, which are producing the "distortion" that you...

cyrano wrote:Still no file browser for Nyquist, I presume?

Not yet.

Try the "WASAPI loopback" method described here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tuto ... ndows.html