Audacity Forum

If you import a known good audio file and play it, does it play normally?
If you play an audio file in another program (for example Windows Media Player), does it play normally?

Drora wrote:All of a sudden the program became: 1) noisy like a storm, 2)shook the entire computer

Do you mean mechanical noise from the computer itself, or noise through your computer speakers?
Do you mean that the computer physically shook?

Newrone wrote:Maybe an idea for Audacity developers would be for this to default to whatever sample rate ALL the individual files are in.

Audacity 1.3.x should default to whatever the first imported file is.

I also have an electric drum kit at home, i connected that to my line in also to try and record and had the same results. so i know it isnt the mixer board That does not say that the problem is not the mixer board end. It does say that there's probably a problem on the computer end, but at this sta...

The file "LADSPA_plugins-win-0.4.15.exe" is not a plug-in, it's an installation package that installs a large set of LADSPA plug-ins. Move the file out of your plug-ins folder and put it somewhere convenient (for example in "My Documents"), then double click on the file to run it...

Unfortunately I can't see an on-line manual for either of those mixers.

If you plug your headphones into the mixer, can you hear the microphone working loud and clear?

Your recording level is set way too high. Open your sound card recording settings and turn down the recording level. During recording, you should see the waveform appear in the Audacity track. Adjust the recording level so that the waveform is about half the height of the track. After it has recorde...

Could you upload a short sample recording somewhere on the Internet, preferably in WAV format, then post a link on the forum. We may be able to identify the problem if we can hear it.

Does your computer have any other audio device connected? (for example, on-board sound, or a USB audio device)

Which Shure mic. and which Gemini mixer are you using?