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Some sound cards allow the microphone to 'play' through the speakers. If the microphone 'plays' through the sound card along with other sounds, then "stereo mix" will record it along with all other sounds that are playing. Other sound cards do not allow the microphone to play through the s...

You could generate a very high frequency sine wave at a fairly low level. "Generate > Tone" If you're using a sample rate of 44100 or 48000 Hz, try generating a tone at around 18000 Hz amplitude 0.05. That will be virtually inaudible unless you have exceptional hearing or your audio playba...

Audacity does not have automatic noise removal, but Windows 7 does. See here for how to turn it off: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... hancements

Topic moved to Mac forum.
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Perhaps your microphone (if you're using a microphone) is picking up sound from your computer speakers (if you have speakers connected and turned on), or it could be something else - you've not given much information to go on.

Have a look at this tutorial, it covers many of the basic editing tasks: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/h ... music.html

Ugabugga wrote:I'm going with what Koz says in that I need to route the line inputs to 1&2. Thing is the computer doesn't even recognise 3&4 :S

"Scarlett MixControl"
See from page 9 onwards in the Scarlett 18i6 user manual.

Short answer: see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/h ... linux.html
Longer answer: first you fill in the missing pieces - why do you want to record sounds playing on the computer with your headset plugged in? What are you trying to do?

Page 9 of the Scarlett 18i6 user manual: Audio set-up in your DAW The Scarlett 18i6 is compatible with any DAW that uses ASIO drivers on Windows, and any DAW that uses Core Audio on Mac. It should be noted that the DAW software may not automatically switch the device it uses to input and output audi...

There's a tutorial here that will probably help: http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/h ... racks.html

See here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 73#p171573