Audacity Forum

Use the Windows Mixer, or the Realtek control panel to select the input rather than Audacity.

1) The preview button only provides a preview of the first couple of seconds (you can set the number of seconds preview in Preferences) 2) You may need to adjust the settings of the effect for it to detect and remove the clicks. 3) Do not use Click Removal as a "global effect" - just selec...

That's not an Eq setting or a plug-in, it's a high quality studio condenser microphone.

Use the "Amplify" effect (default settings) on the entire recording before you export.
The resulting CD will probably still not sound as loud as a commercial CD as they often use lots of effects to artificially boost the loudness, but it should be sufficiently loud.

No. Audacity does not support midi control.

Try upgrading to Audacity 1.3.7

See these two pages:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... e_computer
and
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

fugi1967 wrote:As the noise only happens when the record button is pressed could noises be picked up by the processor or on board sound card?

You may be picking up sound from a built in microphone. Check that the microphone is muted in the Windows Mixer (or disable it in the Windows Control Panel).

There are a couple of possibilities 1) there is a bug in Audacity 1.3.7 that can cause this type of behaviour, but saving the project, shutting down Audacity, then reopening the project will usually fix it. 2) There can be some unexpected behaviour if tracks are linked. Try switching off the link bu...

Which version Audacity?
What operating system?