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See my first reply in this topic: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 85#p142248

If you open Audacity when the USB device is not connected or not switched on, or just not recognised by Windows, then Audacity will not see it and will try to connect to a sound card that (according to Windows) is available.

You just need a couple of potential dividers. To halve the input signal from the cassette to the UCA 202, a couple of 10 k resistors would do. Selection_002.png This is for just one channel, you would do the same for the other channel. To make it fully adjustable, use a stereo 20 k Ohm "pot&quo...

Do you have the USB option selected in "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O" as the Recording device?
(note that the USB device must be connected before you open Audacity).

There's not enough space for the echo. The Echo effect is only applied as far as the end of the audio (not the "selection"), but in the case of your picture, the audio track ends before the echo can occur. You need to add some silence to the end of the track to make room for the echo. Try ...

You may find that the recording quality of the on-board sound card is not very good. This is a very common problem with on-board sound cards, and the reason why I bought a Behringer UCA 202 (cheap, no frills, but pretty good sound quality). The audio recording quality of the video capture card is li...

That's me out of ideas then. Everything that I can think of that might help with the problem is in those pages.

Slightly off topic - I was thinking that I'd not seen anyone running Win 98SE for ages, but we did have another question about Win 98 a few months ago.... guess who.

Starviewer wrote: What is the newest version of Audacity that will work with Win98se ?

1.3.13
You can get it here, but note that there are two versions of 1.3.13 and only the one that says "Windows 98/ME" is suitable for Win 98.
http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows

You mean you want to record sounds that are playing on your computer? Unfortunately that can be quite tricky on Win 7 as in many cases the "Stereo Mix" option has been disabled. See here for instructions and workarounds for if your computer does not have Stereo Mix. http://wiki.audacitytea...