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Turn off "Software Playthrough" (near the bottom of the Transport menu). Next you're going to say that you now can't hear the mic at all while you are recording. That's right. There is no hardware link between the USB microphone and your sound card, so the only way to hear the mic signal d...

For command line recording (also playing, editing and other audio manipulations from the command line), see Sox.

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By "offset" Gale means that the leading silence in tracks 2 and 3 is not exported.
In his example, all three exported tracks will be about 4.5 seconds duration.

Is that what you want to happen, or do you want the tracks to include the leading silence?

everything seems to be going a bit off the charts master of the understatement ;) and then being fed out through RCA cables to a single line-in on my PC. Are you sure that you're feeding it into a "Line" input and not a "Mic" input? (a mic input will be far too sensitive and wil...

Could you upload a short sample recording to the Internet and post a link so that we can hear what you mean.

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel

Audacity can "pause" when the sound level drops.
See "Sound Activated Recording" http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Transport_Menu#sar

OK. While testing this, stick with the "ordinary" headphones (this will avoid some possible complications and confusions). I asked previously whether the echo was evident only while you are recording, or if it is also there when you play back the recording. Looking back through this thread...

You've posted in the Audacity 1.3 part of the forum. Are you really using Audacity 1.3? (check in the Help menu > About Audacity).
If you're not using Audacity 1.3.13, try upgrading to Audacity 1.3.13. You can get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/