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The high noise level may just be because you have the recording volume quite high. Listening to the AT2020 sample it is evident that he is close to the microphone and speaking quite loudly, which means that his recording volume will be low, and so the noise level will also be low. He says that he di...

The noise level does seem rather high. Are you sure that you're not picking up noise from the computers built in sound card? Go into the Windows Control Panel and check that the computer sound card is disabled for recording.

BTW, what operating system are you using?

ZombieLiving wrote:Hi, I am having a similar problem: wave is visible, but produces no sound. However, when I export it as MP3 and play it, I can hear it - just not in audacity.

Edit menu > Preferences > Devices
Set the playback device to match your sound card.

At least there is now a "Watch Out For The Bear Trap" sign, though 6 foot high neon might be more obvious.
People would still fall in it

What you're asking for is non-destructive editing. Audacity doesn't do that. Audacity 1.3 does actually have a little bit of non-destructive editing built in. Edit menu > Preferences > Tracks > Enable Cut Lines" This allows "Cuts" to be made that can then be undone by clicking on the...

I'm using 1.3.11 beta That's confusing - you've posted in the 1.2.x (Mac OS X) section of the forum. 1.3.11 has some known bugs that are now fixed - I'd recommend updating to 1.3.12. When I trim an audio part it might be not before I've made 100+ edits that I realize that I trimmed it too tight. .....

Sorry, I doubt that it will be possible in any program.

Anybody know this one without setting up an experiment? My guess is that the initial "imported" (with linked dependencies) are NOT copied automatically, but any further imports of uncompressed files ARE copied. I also think that by default Audacity will warn the user that there are depend...

Audacity 1.3 didn't make that assumption. No, but Windows often does. On Vista/Win 7 it is usually necessary to change the recording input from mono to stereo for USB devices (because Windows assumes that if it's USB then it's a USB headset). The appropriate settings are buried in the Windows Contr...

Note that I say "reduce" not "remove". I rarely go for more that 12 dB of noise reduction, and will settle for 9 or even 6 dB if the final result is acceptable to my ears. I couldn't agree more. In the real world, Noise "Removal" is a misnomer that leads to unrealistic...