Audacity Forum

Does your computer have a "Sigmatel" control panel/mixer? (look for an icon near the Time/Date, or in the Windows Control Panel.
If it does, could you post a screen shot of its recording settings.

The on-board sound card in my laptop is rubbish. Playback is not too bad, but the recording quality is terrible. Consequently, I use a Behringer UCA 202 USB sound card and the audio quality is very much better (line-in recording and line out only).

How do I set Audacity up to record directly (internally) what my laptop is receiving off the internet instead of going via the mic? It looks like your computer does not support the "Stereo Mix" option, so you are left with the various workarounds described here: http://wiki.audacityteam.o...

If you are wanting ASIO because of the high performance and flexibility that it offers, then you may be interested in trying Linux. Linux is an open source (and usually free) operating system. It does not use ASIO, but has its own native high performance sound system for music production which is ca...

It's a bad idea to post your e-mail address on a public forum, as they are prime targets for spammers that are looking for new victims, so I've removed your e-mail address from your post. Users will reply (as I see Trebor has done already) by posting a reply on the forum.

I think you've reached the stage where you will need to do a bit of research into home studio recording. Here's some links that may help get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing_console http://homerecording.com/bbs/ http://homerecording.about.com/od/homestudiobasics/Home_Studio_Basics_Ge...

How high is the recording level? If the blue waveform on the track is hitting the top/bottom of the track then you have recorded too loud and caused "clipping distortion". This is usually very difficult to repair satisfactorily and it is better to re-record it. A good recording level will ...

Just selecting mono input in Audacity will not sum your L&R channels together. I don't think that is always true. Most USB sound cards will record only the left channel if you select "1 channel (mono)" in Audacity, but I think that some internal sound cards will mix left and right inp...

Could you describe clearly with more detail what it is you want to do.

If I have audio clips in a Project that I want to use in other Projects, my preferred way of working is to Export those clips as WAV files. The WAV files can then be used easily in any other Projects by Importing them, or just drag and drop the WAV file onto the new Project.