Audacity Forum

I have no idea why that distortion happens and only after 5 minutes... Sorry can't help...

What devices have you selected for host, playback and recording in audacity's preferences?

When you recording with the first track playing you're using headphones to listen right?

You have a batch mode processing feature in audacity. I never tried it, but I think it might do the trick...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... Processing

After uninstalling the globalmenu did you restart gnome? Also sometimes audacity fails to start when some conditions saved in the preferences file from previous session fail, such as missing device, which is not the case here... nonetheless it could help to delete the preferences file (~/.audacity-d...

I usually prefer to play on the safe side... and I rarely amplify anything beyond -3dB or -2dB. When recoding live audio I usually try to set the input gain so that the peaks will occurr at about -6dB. Maybe this is being too safe but I always prefer to have lower volume than clipping...

What's the problem with the result of the mixing?

Apparently that's caused by gnome's globalmenu applet. I guess this is an attempt of creating in gnome the macos-x behaviour, but apparently not very successfully... Anyway I found this blog post which might help you: http://mamchenkov.net/wordpress/2010/05/18/missing-main-menu-bar-in-gnome-applicat...

Just to add my two cents... We're all different and we all have different working methods. Which is better will depend on each individual... Some will be more productive working one way and some in other way. mr-b founds working with the mouse to be easier, faster and more accurate... (and believe f...

one more: http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-si ... e=true&s=i

While searching for something else I found this: FreqTweak - http://freqtweak.sourceforge.net/

Not sure if it's of any interest for what you need but here's the link anyway

SoX: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Apparently it's available for windows too. In Linux I think you can pipe sound through sox and have something similar to realtime audio processing... I never tried it though. On windows I have no clue if you can do it or not. I did a quick search for realtime audio p...