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Audacity 1.3.7 is obsolete. The current version is 1.3.14 which you can get from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ You would probably be best to not use Sound Activated Recording when recording vinyl. If you get Sound Activated Recording working correctly you may find that recording occurs dur...

What equipment are you using? (including what operating system, which version of Audacity, make and model numbers of the hardware, how is it all connected....)
Is the noise constant throughout the recording?

The problem is that your computer is having trouble keeping up with the amount of data. There are a number of suggestions on this page that you can try: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Manag ... nd_Drivers

nikkiscruz wrote:I have an 8th grade science project

Sounds much like this project: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 13&t=53280

Is there a maximum of files you can import and "merge"? Or a maximum of total time? "Audacity Beta projects containing more than 2^31 samples will re-open empty with the entire data being seen as "orphaned files" (although the data "appears" to be in the correct l...

Topic moved to the Audacity 1.3.x part of the forum. It sounds like you have the pre-amp level set a bit too high. When setting the level aim for a maximum peak level of about half the track height (minus 6 dB). That level should allow sufficient headroom to avoid distortion while still providing pl...

billw58 wrote:But I guess if you're looking for a soft clipping effect (tape saturation?), the Hard Limiter might be useful.

There's also a "Tape saturation simulator" plug-in: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 42&t=54228 (my comments regarding this plug-in are in that topic).

This may be superfluous as you have found a solution, but a couple of other options: Is there some way I can prepare the raw file so that audacity correctly identifies the settings? You could add a RIFF Header to the data: http://www.signalogic.com/index.pl?page=ms_waveform Alternatively you could u...

if I'm in the wrong forum, I sincerely apologize. Ideally you should have posted on the "Audacity 1.2.x > Windows" part of the forum (as that is what you are using), but as Waxcylinder posted it would be best if you upgraded to Audacity 1.3.14 (from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/...

with the default wet and residue settings at 1 and 0 respectively, Audacity's hard limiter functions a brickwall limiter with a ratio of infinity. Yes, the audio will be (hard) clipped at the "dB Limit" level. Pulling the residue up to 1 should have no effect With the "Residual"...