Audacity Forum

bringe wrote:Ive attatched about 5 seconds as a WAV as you said.

Something is overloading and causing a lot of distortion.

What sort of microphone are you using and what is it plugged into?

nouvo09 wrote: it seems that it has been renamed as gnome-volume-control.

I don't think it is.
I think that gnome-volume-control may be based on pavucontrol but I'm not sure that is has the full functionality of pavucontrol.

Do you have alsamixer? (try typing alsamixer in a terminal window.)

Have you tried running Jack with a sample rate of 48 kHz (and Audacity also at 48 kHz)? I may be mistaken but I have a vague recollection of reading that some SoundBlaster cards are happier at 48 kHz. Worth a try anyway

Robert J. H. wrote:I know that convolution is terrible slow

Yes, terribly

Try the Low pass filter.

When I change a track from mono to stareo, it moves the sound to the left channel. How can I make the stareo track play in the center? Duplicate the track (Select the track then Edit > Duplicate) Click on the name of the upper track and from the drop down menu select "Make stereo track".

that's why the dc-calculation is (very) slightly off The other reason is because the calculation is done in single precision, so when there are a lot of samples there are significant rounding errors. I wonder how professional plug-ins handle the DC-correction, The same way that Audacity does it - b...

I'd recommend that you install pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control). This probably won't fix the immediate problem, but you will find it useful later. When you run ./configure if you scroll up a bit from the bottom of the output text you should see that it says: configure: -----------------------...

I keep seeing hints in your description of something odd/wrong. For example: "(2) managing to get rid of some unfortunately persistent dark-theme window settings that make it so I can't see information in windows;" This was a problem in Audacity back with 1.3.something, but should not be a...

I use PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol). That is THE mixer to use for recording on systems that use PulseAudio (such as Ubuntu). We don't appear to have this documented yet, but there's an example of using pavucontrol for recording sounds playing on the computer. The method you need to use is ...