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Diddi wrote:So I created some .OGG files

From what? Something that you recorded in Audacity?

Perhaps something that your media player is doing?

Gain adjustments on the Gain slider (in the box on the left end of the track) are applied to the track audio when you export.

Well if the delay does not bother you, check that "Software Playthrough" is enabled in the Transport menu.

hearwhat? wrote:If all fails read the instructions.

One of my favourite maxims

High quality video tutorials are always welcome as many of the YouTube tutorials are either very old (obsolete versions of Audacity) or full of inaccuracies / errors. As you can probably imagine, incorrect or out of date "instructions" can cause a lot of problems for users, and often end u...

I don't see how that would ever have worked without a very noticeable delay on the guitar sound. The problem being that there is no hardware route from the guitar input to the speaker output. You may have been able to minimise the delay if you were using other software (not Audacity) with ASIO drive...

Note that "restoration" tools like Noise Reduction are not designed to make silk purses out of sow's ears. They are intended for polishing a good recording, not for polishing dung. The task in hand is to get the raw, unprocessed recording as good as possible - once you have that you may no...

What do you mean registers about "-6dB"? As the recording meter dances around, it should ideally be reaching a maximum of around -6 on the recording meter like this: (you may need to scroll this image to see the right hand end of the picture) recording-meter.png Note that I have dragged t...

I thought I was pretty close to the mic, but I may be wrong. Try about 10 to 15 cm from mouth to mic. What level ideally should my microphone be in recording settings? The "right" level ;) It depends entirely on how loud you talk. If you have a quiet voice the mic will need to be turned u...