Audacity Forum

Not sure what you mean. Could you try to be more precise about what the problem is (more descriptive).

I heartily agree with you. I'm hoping that the "skinning" capability comes back in v.1.4

"File->Preferences->File Formats"
Set the "Uncompressed Export Format" to 8 bit.

I had the same symptoms on my aging PC. Basically Ubuntu is not very well optimised for audio in its standard installation. I upgraded to the RT kernel and audio performance improved radically (curing the problem of jittering playback while recording).

I'm not sure what you are trying to do - when you say "shorten" the sound, do you want to trim off the beginning / end to leave a tiny clip, or do you want to speed it up? Also "rise it's dB until 130" does not make sense. By default, Audacity has a scale of -1 to +1 where a sign...

You need to check the entire signal chain - from microphone through to the recording software. The first thing to identify is where in the chain the signal is clipping. My guess would be that you could be driving the sound card input too hard.

Once you have recorded a track you can adjust the volume of the track with the volume slider at the left hand end of the track. If the vocal (microphone) recording is very quiet, make sure that you have it plugged into a microphone input and not a "line" input (or use an external microphon...

Personally I wouldn't bother with the VST bridge as the graphical interfaces don't work and I find it more trouble than it's worth. There's a huge selection of LADSPA plug-ins available that don't suffer from the crippling licence condition of VST.

Last time I tried, these links worked:
http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=inst ... m=lame-mp3

Make sure that you are recording in a supported format, for example MP3 or WAV and not WMA.