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Here's a sample from Koz of how a guitar sounds on the logitech mic: http://www.kozco.com/tech/MicTests/Logi ... icTest.wav

This thread could also go in the Recording Equipment section, to where I think I'll move it to. Computer built-in soundcards are usually quite crappy when it comes to recording, specially because they lack proper (if any) shielding, which means you'll get a lot of electromagnetic interference... The...

Apparently you didn't record the show... I can think of 3 possible causes: 1) you didn't have the line-in selected as the recording device on audacity 2) the tech guy wasn't outputing the right signal to the xlr output, or the xlr output was not a line level signal 3) the conversion from XLR to 1/4&...

Oh and BTW, you posted in the 1.2.x section of the forum, so if you're really still using Audacity 1.2.x, I'd recommend upgrading to the latest 1.3.13, specially if you're on Vista or 7. Despite being labelled as beta it has reached a quite mature state. Official download site: http://audacityteam.o...

In a straight answer: no! The blue socket is a line input, it's expecting a line level signal. The signal from the mic is a very tiny signal which needs a lot of amplification. Connecting a mic to a line-in will get you barely any sound... Hooking two mics in the mic input will mix the signals from ...

That's not 5dB that's 0.5 in a scale from 0 to 1, which means half of the amplitude or in dB that would be -6dB (being 0dB the max. amplitude). Clipping (which causes distortion) usually ocurrs when the amplitude goes over 1.0 (or 0dB). This is not the case here, so it means the clipping is ocurring...

Quality is used when encoding with a variable bitrate (VBR). Constant bitrate (CBR) means the same bitrate is used through all the encoding. By using a VBR it is possible to optimize better the quality of the encoding (for the same size) or reduce size of the file (for the same apparent quality). Wh...

First it's highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest 1.3.13. The version you're using is a bit outdated and many bug fixes have been made since. I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do in your problem 1, but it looks to me that you're looking for the time shift tool: click the ico...

Godwinlee wrote:its the microphone recording device option that when i press record it records the guitar again would getting an audio interface solve that?

No, if you keep recording from the stereo mix, the same thing will happen regardless of using an audio interface or not...

Now on whether you need an external device or not... make sure first your laptop doesn't have a line in... In the device list in the recording devices in Audacity do you have a line-in option? Same laptops have a shared mic-in/line-in in the same socket. Some people have also reported to have some r...