Audacity Forum

Go into your sound card settings. You currently have the sound card to record from "Stereo Mix" (may be called "What U Hear" or just "Mix". You need to set the recording input to the specific input that you are using, for example the "Line" input or the "...

"distortion" is a totally different issue to "latency".
You will need to describe the problem more clearly, or perhaps post a short sample, or add some screen shots to illustrate the problem, but if we don't know what the problem is then we can't help.

Just to be awkward I found another unusual scenario where the result isn't really what I would expect. Use "Label interval" method, but make the label interval > half the selected length.Then you get only the first label at time zero and no second label at all. I agree that it looks odd, ...

As others have noted there will be a huge difference in level between your voice and the remote voice. You can compensate for this in post-production by applying aggressive compression. There is an alternative method that works rather well provided that both people are not talking at the same time....

Normally the default Quality setting should be left at 32-bit float. This setting should not introduce more noise than setting it to 1-bit, and in most cases should result in less noise and distortion. However, if you're happy with the results that you are now getting, then that's the most important...

I just downloaded audacity and when I drag a song from explorer to audacity it appears as a 0.10 clip and plays back a a very very fast speed & pitch..... no songs appear to be full in length and I am not sure what I am to do. What sort of file is it and which version of Audacity are you using?...

If you're wanting to record from your sound card, for example from the microphone input, then Audacity is a good choice. For recording voip, then "Total Recorder" (non-free commercial product, but tried and tested solution), or possibly "Oreka" (open source solution, but I know n...

Without moving the cursor you can either scroll using Shift+Mouse Wheel, or just drag (with the mouse) the scroll bar that's below the tracks panel (as was your original description). If you are regularly needing to scroll forward and back you probably just need to adjust the zoom level.

It looks like you are recording in Audacity through a built in computer microphone - is it a laptop computer? Which exact version of Audacity are you using? (look in the Help menu > About Audacity) If it is lower than 1.3.13, I'd recommend that you upgrade to 1.3.13 before we go further: http://auda...

I'm guessing that the problem is that you are recording with a USB microphone and monitoring the recording input through headphones and you are noticing that there is a substantial delay before the sound comes out through the headphones. Is that the problem? If not, could you try to describe the iss...