Audacity Forum

I think koz's last post was a reply to viejoken. Root around in Audacity Preferences and make sure they're set to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. It might be set to 32-bit. Restart Audacity and see if you get the same error message when you try to record. Koz No good. Why "no good"? Could you tell ...

That looks like the sort of thing. Will you be monitoring through headphones or speakers? how do you normally connect them to the computer?

le1 wrote:However funny it may sound, this actually fixes this problem, with one "but" recording is limited to 15 minutes.

15 minutes? What happens then? Does it stop, crash, explode, hang...?
How much free disk space do you have?

The Behringer VMX 300 mixer will have a line level output that will suit a USB sound card that has Line level inputs. As I said, I use a UCA-202 in this way. If you check the manual for the mixer it will probably tell you exactly how to connect it all together (Behringer manuals are usually pretty g...

There was a time when almost all tape/cassette recorders had a microphone socket so that you could make your own recordings. These days it's so rare that they've changed the name to cassette "player". Microsoft are going the same way and each new version of Windows makes it a bit more diff...

The computer is plenty powerful enough.
The sound card could do with upgrading - the Realtek on-board sound cards are usually pretty poor for recording.
Plenty of hard drive space is also needed - preferably on a fast hard drive.
I'm not a fan of Vista for audio work.

Here's a rather unconventional method that may work better than compression (though not as good as using headsets and a mixer). Make your recording with the recording level set for the guitars. Select the track in Audacity and press Ctrl+D (duplicate track). Select the top track and from the effects...

I have tried this but even with all tracks selected they only move one at a time with the time-tool so I cannot slide them along all together in-sync :( You need to be using Audacity 1.3.11 Is there a way I can just add more time at the very start of the track without touching the soundclips alread...

The proper solution would be to wear headset microphones plugged into a mixing desk and another microphone for the guitars. Pan the vocal microphones extreme left and the guitar mic extreme right (or the other way round). Adjust the gain so that you get a decent level on each channel, then after rec...

Have a look at the Panasonic WM-034BY. The specification is 20Hz to 16kHz, but it will actually go much lower (below 1Hz). You may have trouble finding these exact ones as I think they are now obsolete, but a bit of experimentation with some modern "equivalents" should give you something u...