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Logitech usb mics are generally regarded among users of this forum as performing very dicently for the price tag... You'll hardly find anything significantly better in that price range... If I was to buy a cheap usb mic I'd probably go with a logitech. If you have the chance to try a couple of diffe...

I've been using Audacity on Debian GNU/Linux on x86 for a long time and it always worked fine out-of-the-box. Despite being labelled as beta, Audacity 1.3.13, on most modern systems, is quite more stable that the very old and no longer in development 1.2.x series. I don't remember using 1.2.x on Lin...

Check the clip Koz just posted on the other thread we mentioned before: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 32#p145517

steve wrote:There's a shortcut to open preferences. Ctrl+P (I presume that will be something like "Command+P" on a Mac)

On Mac it's actually Cmd+, (command+comma) which is the default for accessing the preferences in most Mac apps.

The official download site for Audacity is this: http://audacityteam.org/download/

The recommended version for Windows 7 is 1.3.13, which you can get from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows
(or follow the link on the main download page)

We generated our own listings. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=48132 In this thread that koz mentioned there are a few suggestions for usb mics. The most important question is "what's your budget?" We can make recommendations from $20 to $2000. How much are you willing to spend?

To record what's playing on the computer you need soundflower, read more about it on this wiki topic: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer#Mac You can also dowload youtube videos using mpegstreamclip: http://www.squared5.com/ You need the beta version, the stable...

Thanks Koz for the comments

steve wrote:If you keep going on about that ART you are going to talk me into buying one for myself

I'll let you play with it in the summer

Thank you Steve for the feedback. I'm still not sure if I should get the stereo kit or just one mic. My idea is to use the SC140 closer to the guitar and the SC1100 in the back for ambience. I'll connect both mics to the art preamp. If I get the pair I'll have to leave the SC1100 out, since the Art ...