Audacity Forum

I recently downloaded 1.2 beta Do you mean 1.3 beta? The current (recommended) beta version is 1.3.11 (see "Help menu > About Audacity" for the version number) Look in the "Device" section of Preferences (Edit menu > Preferences > Devices) and check that the recording device is ...

lectotek wrote:I'd actually recorded over an one of my botched earlier attempts on the same audio track

That's got me beat. As far as I know there is no way to record over the same track, so I'm not sure what you've done, but your description sounds impossible.

I can barely hear what I am playing. I am just playing an acoustic guitar into my computer's microphone. Is that the built-in microphone on a laptop? If so, get another microphone. Almost ANY other microphone will be better and you can get it much closer to the guitar. Microphone inputs on computer...

I presume that you are using Audacity 1.3? Make sure that you are Exporting as 16 bit WAV files. I think that Nero should be able to accept 16bit WAV files at 48kHz sample rate, but if you are sure that the Exported files are 16 bit WAV and you still have a problem, try setting the Project Rate (lit...

There's probably not a huge amount that you can do. You can use the Envelope Tool to adjust the volume of selected regions (for example reducing that "ripping" sound) You can use the Equalizer effect to reduce low frequencies (below 250Hz) and boost frequencies a little in the 2-3kHz range...

Glad you sorted it - I suspected something like that.
Thanks for letting us know.

In that case you'd better have the most up to date version (attached). This latest version addresses a very minor (technical) issue. It is correcting the theoretical issue that the previous version will always process 1 sample more than the selected region because it is using the (ramp) function. In...

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I'm still kind of baffled by all these reports of the iMic being "bad", because once I've removed the hum myself, the recordings sound excellent to my ears. If you have a friendly music shop near by, perhaps you could arrange a demo where you can do a side-by-side comparison of the iMic a...

Click on the "Edit Menu"
Click on "Preferences"
Look for the section called "File Formats"

(is that the info you need?)