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You need to set your sound card recording input to the input that you are actually using (for example "mic" or "Line in") and not have it set to "Stereo Mix".

You may find this tutorial helpful: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... necting_Up

LADSPA plug-ins are still supported by Audacity. Check that you have LADSPA effects enabled in "Edit menu > Preferences >Effects". if you have LADSPA effects enabled but still have the same problem, check that the path to LADSPA plug-ins is defined. On Windows, many VST effects are support...

taking off the noise cancellation causes a lot of white noise. Turning off the noise cancellation not "causing" noise, it's simply not removing noise. As in my previous post, most PC on-board sound cards have very poor quality microphone inputs (even on very expensive PC laptops). The usu...

Audacity does not have that feature, but it does have an alternative: Create one or two empty tracks for your clips (must be mono or stereo to suit the clips). Set the clip tracks to "Mute". Select the section that you want as a "clip" and copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl+C). Click...

Try setting up the latency correction as described here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Latency_Test Repeat the test several times. Are you able to get repeatable results? When set up correctly the latency correction should be accurate to within a couple of milliseconds throughout the recording....

What sample rate are you using? (Edit menu > Preferences > Quality)

I was getting a 4280 error on iTunes and Windows Media Player when I tried to burn to CDs. Error 4280 means "Unknown Error". Not very helpful I know. It just means that an error has occurred but the error is unspecified. The first thing that you need to do is to find out if the problem is...

This should really be in one of the Mac forums as the possible solutions are platform dependent. I'll move this to the Audacity 1.3.x > Mac board. If you have downloaded Audacity 1.2.x then (unless your computer is really old) that is the wrong version and you should upgrade to Audacity 1.3.13. Prob...

I'm assuming that you have not applied any effects to that recording? If that is true then the "distortion" is caused by the Windows "Enhancements". Windows Vista/7 will usually apply "Enhancements" to recordings to compensate for the very poor microphone input sound qu...

dcromley wrote:Recording from the sound card --
..Input Device is Realtek HD Audio Input, Stereo Mix
..Input Channels is Mono (that is what I want).
..Audio Host is MME.
..The recording is clipped at 0.5 (50%)

What happens if you set the Input channels to "2 (stereo)"?