Audacity Forum

Windows may be applying a "Noise Cancellation" effect to the sound before it reaches Audacity. Look carefully through your sound card settings to ensure that no effects are enabled. The settings may not be easy to find and you may need to go into the Windows Control Panel to find them.

There are at least two parts to every saved Audacity Project. There is the .AUP file and there is a data folder. For example if you save a project as "mysong", then Audacity will create a file called "mysong.aup" and a data folder called "mysong_data". The data folder c...

i type 140, for both start and finish, That's where the problem is. The "from" and "to" boxes do not refer to the start and end of the track. What it means is "change tempo from an original tempo of .....(bpm), to a new tempo of ..... (bpm)" So for example, if your son...

The selection must be made on one of the actual tracks and not on the time ruler. If you try to make a selection on the time ruler (at the top of the tracks window) then that is telling Audacity to play the region that you "selected". Another possible cause could be if you are inadvertentl...

jquinn23 wrote:I don't have the device, which makes this next to impossible

True.
Have you used one of these devices yourself? Does the device record the local user on one channel of the recording and the remote user on the other channel, or do both voices get mixed together?

Have you tried the "Repair" effect?
BTW, which version of Audacity are you using?

And how does that connect to the computer? Do you know which model it is? Is it this one http://www.dynametric.com/TLP-102_telep ... patch.aspx

tegwengriffiths wrote:I have succesfully installed everything and tried to record both a cassette and LP

How are you recording them? Are you using a USB recording device?

I sympathize - XP was so much more straightforward to set up. See here for how to access the Sounds settings in the Control Panel: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel Check that the Bit-Rate, Number of Channels and selected Devices in Audacity Preferences m...

jquinn23 wrote:I am using it to record telephone interviews

A real telephone or an VOIP phone?
How are you recording it?