Audacity Forum

LilSpider wrote:...once you identify the click (i.e. the vertical red line), how do you get rid of it?

Get a copy of Audacity v.1.3.4 and install it (in a different directory to v.1.2.6)
Then use the "Repair tool" in the "Effects" menu.
http://audacityteam.org/download/features-1.3-j.php

alatham wrote:...KYMA system...

That looks awesome

When people have problems with Audacity, it is useful to try Microsoft Sound Recorder as a test. If Microsoft Sound Recorder works, then it proves that all the hardware and the drivers are working. Because of this, MSR frequently gets a mention on this forum, but usually with the caveat that MSR is ...

LOL, driver problem indeed - audio input disabled by default.

Yes a big step forward. It sounds like you now have the correct recording device selected. Now you need to find the drivers "Control Panel". Have a look at page 11 of the manual.

And how about the Audacity project, does that play in stereo or mono?

That's using an old encoder and an old encoding method. Since Lame 3.9, a new algorithm has been used for encoding with the new "Quality" settings. The "recommended quality settings" are optimised settings for the quality vs. size trade off. In Lame 3.9 the highest quality VBR is...

For what it's worth, I examined the Audio Track drop down menu for the duplicate stereo track and saw that the “Left Channel” is selected but grayed out For a stereo track that is normal (stereo is by definition left+right, so selecting left or right is not available). If you export as a .wav file ...

The USB interface of a turntable offers a recording device (not a playback device). To playback from Audacity, you need to select your normal soundcard as the playback device, not the USB turntable ("Edit->Preferences->Audio I/O") Monitoring the USB turntable is usually done directly from ...

The best choice depends on your existing hardware, and what you want to do with it, but here are some general pointers. If you are using a desktop or tower PC, (not laptop), then PCI sound cards are usually far less trouble than USB or firewire. Audacity does not support ASIO drivers (due to licensi...

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