Audacity Forum

The USB microphone should be connected and recognised by Windows before you open Audacity.
Then go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" and select the USB option as the Recording device and select your normal sound card as the playback device.

MarkEMark wrote:I think I fond it: noisegate.ny

The latest (and recommended) version of noisegate.ny is here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Noise_Gate

For LADSPA effects you can set the LADSPA_PATH environment variable. For VST effects, Audacity will look in the Plug-Ins folder inside the Audacity installation folder, and in other VST system folders Audacity will always check the plug-ins folder that is inside the Audacity installation folder, so ...

I'm not sure exactly what you mean either, but my best guess would be to try the "Sliding Time Scale/Pitch Shift" effect (Audacity 1.3.13)

Are there any free and or torrentable Audac. plugins for drums, bass guitar, keyboard, guitar and ect. I would advise caution about downloading plug-ins from torrents. Many of them are illegal downloads (Pirate software) and many will include viruses and other malware that may wreck your computer. ...

Which arrangement looks closest to how you would like to record:

As waxcylinder has said, if you are lucky, the "Mic" input on the laptop may be able to record line level stereo, in which case the stereo track recorded in Audacity should retain the A/B (Left / Right) channels. To split a stereo track, click on the track name and select "Split Stere...

If the old version was installed into the default location, just install the new version over the top.

In Audacity "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" do you have "Stereo Mix" selected as the recording device? What is currently set as "Host"? Could you post a screenshot of the recording settings for your sound card. It will look something like this (but probably differen...

Audacity only works with uncompressed data, so decoding and re-encoding is unavoidable in this case. Fortunately your source MP3 files are in the highest MP3 quality, so the damage so far will be pretty small and should not pose any serious problem. When you export your final mix as 96kbps MP3, it w...