Audacity Forum

Can you point me to an idiot's guide to Linux audio? I don't understand the hardware devices or the software terminology. pulseaudio, ALSA OSS PCM etc. I've looked up all the acronyms but am still none the wiser. Confusing isn't it :D I'm just starting to get my head around it, but not enough to ex...

Well if everything is set up correctly and still no input signal, then I think that you may have blown the input on your sound card (unless anyone else has any other ideas?)

Assuming that the switch on your iMic is working, it will increase the gain (amplification) to the incoming signal - this is the job of the "pre-amp" part of the device. Not all microphones have the same level of sensitivity, some will output a much higher output signal for a given sound p...

Instead zeroing the particular samples, it perform some kind of offset math, between the old value of the sample and the values of the thresholds....... I think it is great to avoid the high slopes, found on the usual method........ Funnily enough, I've been looking at the opposite - taking the sam...

I'm guessing now because I don't have a 64 bit machine. Which version of Audacity 1.3.5 did you download - amd64 or i386? On my 32 bit computer with Ubuntu 8.04, the i386 version installed without any problem but I guess you need the other version for Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit. Other workarounds... You cou...

I'm hoping that you haven't blown up your sound cards input. The output from a headphone socket is over 1000x higher than a microphone signal. I'm not sure how you will be able to test this... Have a look in the Windows Control Panel in the "Sounds and Audio Devices" section and check that...

just want to connect my mic to my computer and record with it, nothing else. That's not quite true. You want to interface your microphone through a D/A converter (which requires a microphone level input gain stage) then through a USB interface to your computer. That is what both the LightSnake and ...

see here http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... uter_or_CD

The problem is due to the "Link tracks" function. It is a known problem in Audacity 1.3.6

Look for a button with a picture of "chain links" and switch it off. You will need to do this each time you start a new project.

Vista is rather a pain in this (and other) respects.. First thing to do is to download Audacity 1.3 beta (it works better than 1.2 on Vista). It is not essential to uninstall Audacity1.2, but you may as well. Read this before installing Audacity 1.3 http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windo...