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How are you importing the song?
Are you importing files that are on your computer hard drive?
If so, will those files play correctly in other players?
How much free hard drive space do you have?

For "recording" YouTube, it is better to download rather than record. There are plug-ins available for Firefox for doing this. I use "Easy YouTube Video Downloader 6.0". More generally, to record sounds that are playing on your computer, if you have PulseAudio running (it is by d...

This sounds very much like Microsoft "Sound Enhancements" (see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Recording#enhancements ) However, if the sound card is functioning correctly, that should only occur if a microphone is being used and should not occur when "Stereo Mix" is...

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/GVerb

I recommend using the "Duplicate and mix together" method described on that page.

I'd like to modify this proposed feature. Please note that a simple redirection to a translated start page is not sufficient, because all the links in the navigation bar on the left side will throw you back to the English manual. Little of the manual is available in other languages. When viewed in G...

BartmanJax wrote:I tried the Windows Sound Recorder and it works fine as well

If Windows Sound Recorder works then you should be able to get the same result by setting Audacity to use Microsoft Sound Mapper.

But maybe there are some tricks that could even slightly improve the recording and make it more understandable? I know what you mean. Sometimes it is possible to take a bad recording and make subjective improvement. I did have a go before pronouncing the cause lost, but failed. I couldn't make any ...

Sorry it's not possible to improve that. The voice recorder has made the "best quality" recording that it can with a very small amount of data. To do this it "throws away" the least important data. Unfortunately so much data has been discarded that the remaining data produces sou...

I've just looked up "digitale invoer".
"Digital Input" in Dutch?

You are currently set to record from the digital (probably S/PDIF) input on the E-MU 0404.
Is that the input that you have connected the DAT machine to?
Do you have the S/PDIF button pressed on the E-MU 0404?

Thanks, Steve. I understand that, but the hiss I'm talking about suddenly appeared. I was playing with the Audacity that I just downloaded with the built in mic in the laptop (Windows Vista Home Premium) and it was working fine. No hiss. When I plugged the external mic into it and began recording, ...