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It's starting to look like a hardware fault.
Which version of Windows are you using?

It looks like either: The gain setting on the MBox is too high or You're using Vista or Win 7 and Windows is amplifying the input before it gets to Audacity. If it's the first, then all you need to do is turn down the gain on the MBox. If it's the latter, see this post: http://forum.audacityteam.org...

Update : I've spotted a minor bug in the plug-in. If the level of the final sample in the selection is high, then it may be amplified incorrectly and end up at a very high level. The bug is fixed in this version: sclimiter.ny

There is a minor bug in the previous version of the Soft Clipping Limiter plug-in. If the level of the final sample in the selection is high, then it may be amplified incorrectly and end up at a very high level. The bug is fixed in this version:

it seems to allow some actual clipping (shown in red) Assuming that the selected audio is not greater than 0 dB, the output may touch 0 dB (and thus show a red line if Show Clipping is enabled) but will not be above 0 dB. If you want to limit peaks and leave the audio at the reduced level (without ...

Audacity 1.3.x uses a configuration file called audacity.cfg
See here for the default location of this file: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audac ... tored.3F_2

To disable the Welcome screen you need to have the lines:

Install pulseaudio volume control (install the ubuntu's package named pavucontrol). Control the input volume using that. You beat me to it :) levels aren't so loud and its a behringer 1024 mixer. That's a bit vague. The maximum level should (probably) be less than 0 dB. Since changing my OS to Linu...

For Windows, have a look here:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/

(I use Linux so the programs that I'm familiar with are different)

You have inadvertently selected "Snap To". Look near the bottom of the main Audacity window and untick "Snap To".

It means that you have downloaded the wrong thing. CDex is open source and free (fully functional). As with many open source projects the cost of hosting the website and software is met by advertising, which is fine if it is clear what is an advert, but some advertisers abuse the system and make the...