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Check the "power saving" settings on the computer, and ensure that everything is set to "always on". Then try another test recording.

Yes, that looks like "dither" noise. Don't worry about it - the "damage" is insignificant compared to the unavoidable damage caused by MP3 encoding.
Strictly speaking, I don't think it should happen, so I have logged it on the Audacity bug tracker.

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Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:49 pm

Is the Audio-Technica AT2020USB+ compatible with both Ubuntu and Audacity?

We hear from plenty of Audacity users that successfully use the AT2020USB with Audacity.
I'm on Linux but I don't have an AT2020USB, but a 1 minute Google search says that people are successfully using this device on Linux.

I would recommend you stick with the 2.2.1 version. "Flathub" provides "Flatpak" builds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak). Because Flatpak apps run in a "sandbox" environment, this can cause problems if you try to access external resources. Such problems can be co...

Have you tested with Ardour? If the problem exists there too, then the problem is most likely to be due to a build fault in the Debian package, in which case it should be reported to Debian.

Thanks for confirming. You have discovered a bug.
It looks like it should be an easy fix, so hopefully we will be able to fix it for the next Audacity release.

Not a dumb question, it's a limitation of Windows. The Windows sound system makes it near impossible to record both sides of an on-line conversation. The best solution is to use software that can bypass the sound system and hack into the data. For example, for recording both sides of a Skype call th...

This is not a bug. The behaviour's of clicking the Record button and "Shift + Record" were swapped a couple of versions ago because most users just want to continue recording to the same track. In current versions of Audacity, the Record button (or the "R" key) will record to the...

The buffer options are in "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices".
The default buffer setting is 100 ms.
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/dev ... ences.html

Short jump right, press the "." key ("dot" key, may also have ">" depending on keyboard layout) Long jump right, press "Shift + ." Short jump left, press the "," key ("comma" key, may also have "<" depending on keyboard layout) Lo...