Audacity Forum

What we can eliminate: Hardware (it works with Linux) Audacity (Audacity is a slave to the computer sound system) What's left - the drivers. USB sound cards frequently have few or no controls for adjusting input levels. If this is the case with your set-up then you may have to live with it. As I men...

Which plug-ins are you trying to use?
Not all VST plug-ins are compatible with Audacity. Audacity does not support any VSTi plug-ins.
Personally I prefer to use Nyquist and LADSPA plug-ins - there's a huge range of free ones available.

It is most likely a problem with either your sound card, or your sound card settings, or as koz says, overloading the sound card input. (My sound card line input clips at -0.3 dB) By playing around with your Windows Mixer settings you may find that adjusting either the input gain, or the master reco...

It involves compiling Audacity from the source code - not too much of a problem on Linux, but rather involved on Windows. There's instructions for compiling Audacity on Linux here: http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CompilingAudacityForBeginners (and that's easy compared with Windows)....

Vorbis' audio quality is not best measured in kilobits per second, but on a scale from -1 to 10 called "quality". This change in terminology was brought about by a tuning of the variable-bitrate algorithm that produces better sound quality for a given average bitrate, but which does not a...

If your show is mono, then Audacity will export it as mono automatically.

I know enough about audio to know I need something to cut the signal so the mic input can handle it. But I don't know what it is called. I'd call it an "attenuator". Is this because your computer has no "Stereo Mix" option? There was a discussion about home made attenuators rece...

Is there a chance erightsoft's program has viruses? :? I use SUPER from erightsoft http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html I wouldn't be likely to use and recommend it if it had viruses. However you should always scan all download with an up to date virus checker as a matter of course. Finding the rig...

Lots of suggestions:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... bar_Issues

runpmr wrote:I have the latest 2008 version of audacity but was unable to find the area with the remaining "recording time" on the bottom left of the screen that you alluded to.

Click on the status bar (the very bottom of the Audacity Window).