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I'm trying to get a picture of what you are trying to do and what equipment you are using.

So you have a combined headphone/microphone set plugged into the mic and headphone sockets of your Windows 7 laptop and you want to record yourself singing?
Please correct anything that I've guessed wrong.

From a quick look at the Sony Walkman, MZ-NH700 manual http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/MZ-NH700/manuals It looks to me like you need to use the "SonicStage" software (supplied with the Walkman) to transfer the recording from the MiniDisk to your computer. When you have done that y...

What are you trying to record? A microphone? A CD player?

(setq s1-srate (snd-srate (my-s s))) The innermost part of this command (my-s s) calls the function "my-s" and pass "s" as the argument. "S" is a special global variable that is specific to the Audacity implementation of Nyquist. Audacity passes the sound from the audi...

SAngeli wrote:what you advise me to do does not work. It just does not.

Could you post a screenshot of:
Edit > Preferences > Effects

Regarding your problems with the KX drivers: These are very complex and non-standard WDM drivers for sound cards that have either an EMU10K1 or EMU10K2 sound chip. I've only ever used them with Windows XP so I have no idea how they will behave (or misbehave) under Windows 7. Windows 7 is not officia...

Topic moved to the Windows forum. I do not know if I have VST effects installed. How to find out? You will only have VST effects installed if you have installed them. Audacity does not ship with any VST effects. As you don't know, I'd assume that you have not installed any, in which case the easiest...

That just seemed to lower the volume levels but not fix the distortion. In that case the clipping is occurring before it gets to the computer. Check the turntable volume again, just in case the the control works in an upside down manner or something strange like that. If the turntable volume is dow...

caspian wrote:Is there any way that I can enhance the speech?

In my opinion, no.

With the exception of "Auto Duck", effects are only applied to (or affected by) the selected track(s).