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Are you still using XP?

You should be able to pause in the middle of a recording. Just click on the pause button or press the "P" key. Click the Pause button again (or press the "P" key again) to resume the recording. Alternatively you can stop the recording (press the Stop button or press the spacebar)...

If you click on. or very near the meeting point of two audio clips in the same audio track, they will "join" to become one audio clip. This is an intended feature that allows easy joining of audio clips. If you have some very short audio segment in an audio track, you may need to be carefu...

dB: Decibels. A logarithmic unit (typically of sound pressure) describing the ratio of that unit to a reference level.
In relation to Audacity, it is the height (amplitude) of the waveform and is measured relative to "full scale" (the height of the audio track).

Do any applications hear your microphone?
Do you have PulseAudio Volume Control installed? (pavucontrol is available in the repository)

This topic may be of interest to you: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 13&t=53615

In Audacity 1.3.14 there is a low-pass filter in the Effect menu (bottom half of the menu).

You're welcome.
Aren't you going to tell us what you want it for?

Open the "Change Tempo" effect and enter the required duration but press the Cancel button rather than the OK button.
The % that "Change Tempo" says is the same as the % required for "Change Speed".

I wouldn't expect the problem to be drivers as most USB audio device just use generic Windows drivers. There's a big list of other stuff that could be involved: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Managing_Computer_Resources_and_Drivers USB devices are particularly vulnerable to problems when the CPU ...