Audacity Forum

I am a new register user but unable to find how to post an issue/topic for set up of Mac Big Sur. I know I am in the wrong spot/forum. I am totally frustrated at this point. To start a new topic, go to the "macOS" forum page: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=47 then click th...

Does the Midas X32 not have a way to monitor what it is receiving from USB?

However, the playback is also set to ASIO (going back to my mixer) and there are no other options. If I select WASPI I can choose my computer speakers as output. Is this something specific to ASIO? Yes. I'd love to be able to hear what I am recording in real-time. Plug your headphones into the Mida...

@Steve I think they are off. Perhaps worth double checking. The symptoms that you describe sounds very much like a "noise reduction" / "echo cancellation" effect that is frequently enabled by default by Windows. Also, some sound cards have their own "control panel" whi...

A home recording is not good evidence of noise pollution. It would certainly not stand up in court.
You need a calibrated "Sound Pressure" meter - they are very expensive, but environmental health organizations will have them.

See here: viewtopic.php?p=408815#p408815

overlap wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:01 pm

Here it is. There are some errors as you see in the image, not sure if
they are important.

They are probably not important.

Instructions for "Recording Computer Playback on Windows" are here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tut ... ndows.html

You can copy that link address into Google Translate to have the page translated into your primary language.

(Also I would very much appreciate any hints which may explain what I'm doing wrong in direct (audacityless) recording (2nd option: bottom part of the long message).) I would be very cautious about using ~/.asoundrc or modifying the sound system - it's too easy to mess up the sound system. There's ...

overlap wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:05 pm

I can't locate "it". Here is a screenshot of my audacity.

If by "it" you mean "PulseAudio Volume Control", then it isn't part of Audacity. It's a mixer for PulseAudio (the standard Linux Sound system).
What happens when you run pavucontrol in a Terminal window?