Audacity Forum

If you're using Audacity 1.3 on Windows, there's a free VST expander here: http://antress.er-webs.com/

If you are using Audacity 1.2 then you have a slim chance of being able to recover the recording using the methods described on this page: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CrashRecovery If you are using the latest 1.3 version of Audacity then there's a very good chance that the project will be reco...

This is often referred to as recording "Stereo Mix". Some sound cards call it "Auxiliary" but more commonly it's called "Stereo Mix" or "Mix" or "What U Hear". Unfortunately the option is not always available in Windows 7 (or Vista). If it is availab...

Often the noise on laptop and notepad computers is electrical noise because they use very cheap microphone input components. This type of noise will typically sound like a constant hiss. Other forms of computer noise are "mechanical" noises such as the whirring of cooling fans. Then there'...

Space => Play P => Pause What do you want to do next? Note that while in "Pause" mode, most Audacity functions are unavailable. For most functions you need to "Stop". To "Stop" at a specific place during playback: Space => Play Shift+A => Stop and place cursor. There's ...

What anti-virus and firewall programs do you have running?

It would probably be a good idea to do a thorough check of your computer system. Start with a full-strength virus scan, then give the hard drive a thorough test. To test the hard drive, if you know the make of the hard drive, most hard drive manufacturers have diagnostic test programs available on t...

If you're using Audacity 1.2.6, it could be a bug in Audacity, but the 1.2 series is no longer being developed. Do you get the same problem in Audacity 1.3? (you can download it here if you've not got it already http://audacityteam.org/download/ ) If you do still get the problem, what operating syst...

Assuming you're dealing with sine waves, and that you're asking about the "Analyze menu > Plot Spectrum" window.
Max peak amplitude / 2 = -6 dB

The "chimes" that you can hear are "artefact" caused by the Noise Removal effect when it can't handle the amount of noise. Noise Removal can be very effective when removing constant low level noise, but if the noise level is too high then there's no way to remove it without causi...