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I've merged these topics because your previous posts give important background information. Your current issue sounds like you may have some kind of "Automatic Gain Control" (AGC) "Noise Reduction" or "Echo cancellation" switched on. These are a common source of recordi...

Lots of problems with internal PC laptop sound cards - basically they are usually poor quality, and crammed into a small space on the circuit board making them prone to picking up interference from other components such as the hard drive and fan.

The best results that I can get are by using a couple of notch filters. Try running this code in the "Nyquist Prompt" box ("Effect" menu) on some of the files: (notch2 (notch2 s 941 1) 1477 1) Unfortunately you can not run this as a batch (chain), but you can run it on multiple f...

Try making some test recordings without "Easy Worship" running.

as i sadi before my stereo mix is DISABLED Oops, missed that :mrgreen: but the symptoms as you describe them are exactly right for Stereo Mix being enabled :? I bet that you've been through all of the sound card settings a hundred times by now, so on the premise that all of your sound card settings...

See here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 890#p42893
Please avoid double posting, it gets confusing.

The USB device must be connected and recognised by your OS before you open Audacity.
Then check in "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O" that the USB device is selected as the recording device (if you have to make a change here you may need to restart Audacity again).

See here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 550#p42611
Did that work for you?

You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=6235&filename=audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz&a=12994558 but you will need to build it yourself (this is the 1.2.6 sourcecode). PLEASE DO NOT tell me that 1.3x is better for Ubuntu because Canonical said so and thus I sho...

Check in the sound cards control panel that you have the microphone selected as the recording input and not "stereo in". Note that most general purpose sound cards have rubbish quality microphone inputs - that's why many users either use a microphone pre-amp and plug that into the line inp...