Audacity Forum

Look in the Windows Sound Control Panel and check that the microphone is available and enabled in Windows. If Windows can't see the microphone then Audacity will not see it either. Note that Audacity 1.2.6 is obsolete. The current version of Audacity is 2.0.3 and is available here: http://audacityte...

Glad you got it fixed RepeatAfterMe. Not sure if it's worth mentioning but the answer was also in the second link that Gale posted: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#cp That article covers the subject more broadly and offers a number of solutions. Installing generic RealTek driv...

If they are VST effects you will probably need to tell Audacity to rescan the effects. See here for details: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... st_install

It's not Audacity disabling the audio, it's how Windows handles USB audio devices. See here for how to fix: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Playback#usb

Topic moved to the Audio Processing forum. Interesting questions. I'm not sure how much detail you want, so to start, here is the manual page for the Compressor effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/compressor.html I realize that the Audacity Compressor is not very "intuitive" to us...

While we sort this problem out, you could Save the Audacity Project (In the current version of Audacity you will find that in "File menu > Save Project". Note that saving an Audacity project creates a "project file" (with the file extension ".aup") and also a data folde...

The audio that you want to duplicate must be selected before you press Ctrl+D

"Clipping" is the show destroyer.
Depending on what sort of mixing desk you have, you may have a "Control Room Out" with an independent level control that you could use as the output to go into the UCA 202.

Real way Edit > Duplicate (written in instruction to convert 1- channel to 2- channel track). And then point 3. Yes that is how you would normally create a 2 channel mono but if you are going to use the "Pseudo Stereo" effect you don't need to do that because the Pseudo stereo effect only...

I use a Behringer UCA 202. At less than $30 it's great value for money and the sound quality is good enough for producing high quality CDs. The main drawbacks are: 1) There are no input or output level controls. This does not matter if you can control the level of the thing that you are recording, b...