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Audacity Beta 1.3 Look in "Help menu > About Audacity". If it is not 1.3.11 then it is worth updating. I'm very surprised by this problem, it's usually the other way round with Skype hijacking the sound system. If you look near the time/date on your desktop you will hopefully see a loudsp...

Unfortunately not.

If you are just recording from one microphone, use mono. I'd recommend that you give Audacity 1.3.11 a go, it has lots of improvements and in many ways is easier to use. (you don't need to uninstall 1.2.6 - just use one at a time. Try these settings: Sample Rate 44100 Sample Format 32bit Realtime sa...

USB or conventional microphone?
Which version of Audacity and which version of Windows?

This is a known bug in Audacity 1.3.10. It has been fixed in 1.3.11 which is available from the main Audacity web site. http://audacityteam.org/download/

mintyclean wrote:The effects applied are Normalization, Change Tempo, and Compressor. Does the order matter?

Use Normalize last.

mintyclean wrote:Can I use Chris Capel's Dynamic Compressor with Apply Chain?

Unfortunately not.

You may have trouble finding a suitable pre-amp/USB sound card to fit that microphone. Most sound cards have mono inputs for the microphone socket.

Your method sounds about right, so now it's just a matter of tweaking them for best results. There are not really any "optimum" settings beyond what you are doing - from there on it depends on the individual sound clip.

OK, here it is as a plug-in. To install the plug-in, unzip (extract) the attached file and put it in the Plug-Ins folder inside the Audacity installation folder. On Windows computers, this is usually under "Program Files". On Mac OS X, it is usually under "Applications". Restart ...

Audacity can not, on it's own, record both sides of a Skype conversation. On a Windows computer, to record sounds playing on the computer AND the microphone requires that Audacity is set up to record from "Stereo Mix". The trouble is that Skype changes the settings to "Microphone"...