Audacity Forum

Tested with Audacity 1.3.11 on Win XP and Linux and get a "clipping" indicator wherever the waveform reaches 0dB. Have noticed this with other versions of Audacity previously. AFAIK Audacity should display a red line when the waveform reached 0dB. As Bill says, with anything other than 32b...

I guess it worked

sorry for the post - i just read that VSTi is not supported No problem, but something that may help with VST Effects.... Audacity 1.3.11 supports many (not all) VST effects (not instruments) including pretty graphic interfaces. In Audacity 1.3.11 you do not use the VST bridge plug-in, just put the ...

Switch on "Play other tracks while recording new one" (Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O)

BTW, tips for using Audacity on Vista: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS

No it's not Audacity, it's Vista. Look in the Windows Control Panel, there should be a setting for recording in mono or stereo. I trust you are using a Line input and not a Mic input? For Vista it is recommended that you use Audacity 1.3 The best version for Vista is 1.3.11 here: http://wiki.audacit...

Try removing the VST bridge and see if Audacity will open correctly.

Set the default recording device like this: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ng_devices

The default Amplify will increase the size of the waves until one of them somewhere in the show hits maximum. You can tell amplify to ignore clipping and increase the size a little more. The resulting waves should light up bright red at the clipping point. If you just use the Amplify effect with th...

Is Audacity installed with a European language (not English)?
Update to Audacity 1.3.11 - you can get it here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... tly_Builds