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"half way up" equates to a peak level of -6 dB. It may look a bit weedy, but in fact that is not far off maximum. After you have recorded the audio you can use the "Amplify" effect to boost the level up a bit (if you use the default settings it will amplify the recording so that ...

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Does the normalize feature fix this? No. Normalize is an amplification effect. It amplifies the sound so that the loudest peak comes to the level that you set (default in Audacity 1.3.x is 0dB) what can I do to fix the up and down pitch changes of the audio? Not very much without an awful lot of ma...

Try installing it as an Administrator.

woddfellow2 wrote:Host is set to ALSA.

Devices are set to "Default" and "Default".

Did you try setting them to "hw:0,0" ?

Well you learn something new every day ;) There should really be a warning about that. The problem is that the Vocoder is attempting to process sounds in the 20Hz to 20kHz range, but sample rates below 44100 do not go as high as 20kHz because the highest audio frequency possible is a little under ha...

pete hroo wrote:Sigma Tel High Definition Audio CODEC

Yes, that's it.
Did you find the loudspeaker icon?

Small changes in pitch tend to suffer less than large changes. Sometimes it is practical to use a bit of "change pitch" and a bit of "change speed". (the Change Speed effect changes both the pitch and the tempo, but the sound quality is not compromised).

I've been looking for a review of a USB Guitar cable, but so far only found one, and it wasn't encouraging

I bought it........IT SOUNDS LIKE RUBBISH!

Does anyone here use one?

It sounds like there may be some issue with the file. It's not a problem related to ffmpeg as Audacity has support for Ogg files built in (it does not need ffmpeg for Ogg files).

If you can install "mediainfo" it can give you a comprehensive analysis of the file format.