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Audacity does not make any changes to your sound system, so I'm guessing that you have probably changed something in the Windows mixer and disabled audio playback.

Can you get any audio from anything? Do you get the "Windows sound" when you boot up?

If you have a graph to represent the compression (like you get with the other "Compressor" effect) the "knee radius" would be a curve that joins the line below the threshold and the line above the threshold. The larger this curve, the softer the knee. Conversely, a small radius c...

Ooh that's nasty. I can produce something similar if I reduce the audio buffers down to about 10 milliseconds, but it doesn't start off normal and then go bad, it starts off bad and stays bad. It may still be worth checking the audio buffer settings - you will find them in "Edit -> Preferences ...

There's a number of compressors, limiters and maximisers in the LADSPA and Nyquist plug-in collections. Have a go with those first. http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins VST support is only partial due to licensing restrictions, so if you can achieve the desired results with one of the above, the...

It sounds to me like you need to adjust the "latency correction" - have a look at this post:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 5562#p5562

It sounds like it could be one of the settings in "Edit -> Preferences -> Audio I/O" that is wrong, but it's difficult to guess further than that without knowing a bit more detail (what OS you're using, can you hear the sound, through your computer speakers, what version of Audacity, can y...

Personally I've not been very satisfied with distortion plug-ins on any software apart from the commercial program "Guitar Rig". The type of distortion that you get from an over-driven guitar amp is rather complex as it is the product of not only the electronic distortion (which itself is ...

To get recording to work on my machine (Xubuntu, SoundBlaster Live) I had to select: "ALSA: SBLive Value (CT4832) Multichannel capture/PT playback" as for some reason, just selecting "ALSA default" didn't work. Also, I have to have the default sample rate set to 48000 Hz for it t...

Edit -> Preferences -> Audio I/O

Tick the box that says "Play other tracks while recording"

ADPCM is a compressed, lossy, audio format ( http://www.xentec.be/products/vox_studi ... format.htm ) and I don't think that it's supported by Audacity. You need to convert them to "Microsoft PCM wav". A free conversion tool that will do this is "SUPER".