Audacity Forum

What is it supposed to sound like?
How did you record it? (lots of detail please)

Amplification and Noise Removal are the correct tools for the job. There is a limit to how much improvement can be made, but if you could upload a SHORT sample (just a few seconds) that includes both "noise only" and "voices", then we may be able to give some suggestions of setti...

WAV files (or any other audio file) do not automatically play repeatedly. Repeated playing of a file is controlled by the software that is playing the file. Any program that can "loop play" a WAV file can "loop play" any WAV file. The only "special" thing about a "...

Which version of Windows are you using?
What sort of sound card?
<<I look to see that the bass boost is set to 0>> where is that setting?

You have correctly set your computer up to record from the "Line Input". However, it looks like you are trying to record sounds playing on your computer (from the "Gom Player") and not from the "Line In". "Line In" is a physical input connection - on full-size...

Yes you can delete it, but then: Download the ZIP version of Lame from here: http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ Extract "lame_enc.dll" from the ZIP file into the Audacity 1.3 beta installation folder (should be in "Program Files") Restart Audacity Go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Li...

Use Generate->Tone->Sine and clip the result by any means you wish. Just amplify (allow clipping) and Analyze->Plot Spectrum still shows only the single spectral line at 10 KHz. But Amplify again knows that the amplitude is already 3 dB above clipping, so apparently no clipping actually happened. I...

mario62 wrote: Interesting that i do not have to change these settings in windows control panel to be able to use 2 channels with the 1.2.x version.

With Audacity 1.2, is it actually recording both channels, or just recording the left channel twice?

Try this: wave-info.ny After installing and restarting Audacity it will appear in the "Analyze" menu as "Wave Info..." You may want to check the accuracy of the results against the "Wave Stats" plug-in. Data from the "Debug" window can be copied and pasted int...

Have you tried reducing the recording level in the Windows Control Panel? (see previous post by Irish)