Audacity Forum

Do you mean that the first track is being recorded onto the second track along with your new sounds?

Which version of Audacity?
What operating system?
What sort of microphone?
What sort of sound card?

I've already installed Audacity 1.3 Beta Ensure that it is 1.3.12 - not all beta versions are equal, 1.3.12 is the version to use. there is not an Audacity folder in my documents. By default Audacity 1.3.x will install to C:/Program Files/Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)/ Assuming that is the location o...

While EAX can be enjoyable and fun when playing games or just listening to music, it can be a disadvantage when recording. Unless you remember to completely disable EAX when you are recording and editing/mixing you can get a completely false idea of what your Audacity project really sounds like. For...

Effect menu > Equalization.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... ualization

Trebor wrote:get free crackles from Freesound

I found some when I searched for "vinyl" or "vinyl noise" on Freesound.

Darvon wrote:When I try to save a project, I get ....: "Could not save project. Perhaps /... is not writeable or the disk is full.

Where are you trying to save the project?

TWF wrote:so is this the same thing i need to do? i had to uninstall and then reinstall audacity..and i also need lame..

Probably best to post a new topic and give full details about your set-up and what you want to do.

Probably because you have "software playthrough" enabled.
if you provide more information about your set-up we can probably help further.

I've not got an XtremeGamer to test, but I expect that it will work.
Many SB cards support ASIO, but they usually (probably always) have standard Windows drivers (WDM) as well (included on the installation disk)
To use Audacity you will need to install the Windows Drivers.

BrownSugar wrote:I have Windows 7.

And "Audacity 1.3.12 (Unicode) beta"?

Open Task Manager by right-clicking the taskbar and then clicking Task Manager.
Look to see what processes are running - if Audacity is listed, close it, then try starting Audacity again.