Audacity Forum

See the last reply by Gale Andrews.

if I click on one track to highlight it and put the curser at the begining of the track it changes into a horizontal bar with an arrow pointing left and right. You have got the "Multi-Tool" selected http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/help/manual/man/tools_toolbar.html Also there is a &...

What are the output (playback) device options in the Device Toolbar?

Please read the "Information about this forum" (in red) above and provide the requested information. When I add the second track I askfor a mono track but end up with two mono tracks recording and I don't know why. I'm not sure what you mean. How are you "adding the second track"...

What is the output (playback) device set to?
What sort of USB device?

As a test, try disabling 'Software Play Through'. Does Audacity then record?

The default Audacity settings will work well.
Set the number of recording channels to 1 (mono) in the Device Toolbar http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Device_Toolbar

Default "Quality" settings:
Sample Rate 44100 Hz
Sample format 32-bit float.

When you have confirmed that "normal" recording (Sound Activated recording disable) works as expected, enable Sound Activated recording and press the Record button. When the input is over the specified level Audacity will record and if the input is below the specified level Audacity will p...

OK, good points. Though I don't think the end point default should be set to assume fade outs. I agree, hence the proposed defaults of zero. What do suggest for the maximum slider ranges for "Label position before start / after end of sound"? How about 0.0 to 1.0 (default 0.0) for Label p...

Copied from http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=62867 : I agree with what I take as your comment here that we don't need two Sound Finders. I have never liked the similarity of Silence Finder and Sound Finder, and suspect that few novices use Sound Finder given most documentation ...

Thanks for your comments Gale.
I think discussion about the points in your most recent post fit better in the "Sound/Silence Finder enhancements" topic, so I'll respond to them there.