Audacity Forum

As for the hum, I don't hear it. I thought it had been resolved. Drat. The remaining hum is mostly 60 Hz mains hum. 60 Hz is very low pitched, and is easily filtered out without affecting the voice. The more damaging effect is if there are harmonics at 120, 180, 240 ... Hz as these would overlap wi...

Unless you have a specific reason that we don't know about for recording at 48000 Hz sample rate, I'd suggest that you set the recording preference to 44100 Hz. "Edit > Preferences > Quality" -> Default sample rate = 44100 Am I still recording low? Yes, still a bit low. The first track is ...

Yes, playback sounds great as ever. Good. Open Audacity, Check that "Transport menu > Software Playthrough" is NOT selected (off). With the Record (and Playback) devices set to "Pulse", press the Record button in Audacity. Does the cursor progress to the right? If it does, you s...

Good, that all seems normal.
Does the playback sound OK?
If it does then we can move onto recording.

What are you trying to record? (describe in detail please, I can't see your computer )

Try setting the output device to "Sound Mapper", then check the playback settings in the Windows Sound Control Panel

Ken Coburn wrote:A 100 second recording plays back in 43.5 seconds. In addition to the pitch being far too high, the recording appears to be full of holes or dropouts.

Ken Coburn wrote:When played back, it does not appear that the pitch has changed.

So which is it? The pitch is too high on playback or not too high?

Ken Coburn wrote:/home/kenneth/Desktop/Screenshot-1.png

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Audacity 2.0.5 works on XP, though worth noting that Windows XP is now officially obsolete.

What have you got selected as the output (playback) device in the device toolbar?

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If you do not already have it installed, install "pavucontrol" (PulseAudio Volume Control). Ensure that no other audio programs are running - particularly ensure that you have no web pages open that contain sound. Open Audacity and set both the recording and playback devices to "Pulse...