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Does the occurrence of this problem coincide with Windows 10 2004 update?

Have you installed any new apps recently?

wthalliii wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 5:55 pm

Just to close out this "event", I ordered the replacement USB audio interface unit, and it works just fine.

Thanks for the update.
I'll close this topic as "solved".

I'd suggest that you completely uninstall FFmpeg, then look in "C:\Program Files (x86)\" and delete the "FFmpeg for Audacity" folder (if present). If you see any other folder called "FFmpeg for Audacity", delete that too. Then download a fresh copy of "ffmpeg-win-2...

I appreciate your point about not wanting to break things.
Do you currently have good enough workarounds to be able to do what you want to do with Audacity?

DStevensca wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 1:13 pm

Why is RMS -23.00 bad if -23 is good?

The display value is rounded to 2 decimal places. Thus -23.001 (a little less than -23.00) will display as -23.00.
Better to aim for around -20 dB so that you are well within the specified range.

What sort of microphone are you using and how is it connected to your computer?

You may find this article helpful: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tut ... rdubs.html

As per our policy What exactly is your policy? Is it that your employees / users are not allowed to update installed software, or that they are not allowed to visit certain websites? If it is that they are not allowed to update installed software, then Audacity's menu item is irrelevant because it ...

Looking back to the start of this topic, you were originally using PuseAudio and the audio data received by Audacity was at completely the wrong sample rate (about 4000 samples per second when it should have been exactly 44100 samples per second). Later we found that it was possible to bypass PulseA...

How to live monitoring a USB entry (ex: ezCap) ? ezCap make a large range of devices. If a device provides direct monitoring (independent of any computer connection) then it is best to use that. If this option is available, it should be in the devices' user manual. If the device does not support di...

NoahGreat wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:36 am

So will it work correctly in -50d ?

What Trebor is saying is that it is normal for there to be low level noise from microphones.
"around say -50db" is an example. The actual noise level could be anything but -50 dB is fairly typical for a laptop.