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Im not sure what I broke... I just installed the newest audacity since I had to buy Windows 7 this week. Now I can't get audacity to play what I record onto it. I see its there, I just can't hear it. I know its not my speakers or my volume settings. I can only assume its something in the Audacity s...

ste1200 wrote:Honestly, I really don't know what the settings should be - can anybody advise what they should be please ?

for one thing
where you want to record from should not be muted
and the volume should be max

either of those will make it look like it is not recording
andor stop it from recording

Hello, I'm having a problem with some sort of background static. When I play the show within Audacity, it sounds great, but if I export it to another file format, it suddenly develops a background noise that is quite audible during softer parts of the music. I've tried exporting as MP3 (with a vari...

kolakube123 wrote:Hi,

How do you mean configuration mate?

I mean I can hear my synth great but will it hell record.

all the hardware
all the software
how they connect
software options and settings selected

we need more clues to try to diagnose the problem

I think I must have selected something in my Windows Audio that has stopped it recording somehow. Can you anybody advise me how to set this up correctly please ? there are at least 7 places where windoze diddles audio track them all down and set all of them to do what you want dont forget the realt...

Hi guys,,I have two backing tracks one without lead guitar one with lead guitar all the way through, I want to make a proper backing track,,So I want to use only the part of lead from the one with the guitar to provide the solo instramental in the one without,, so I can sing along but have the inst...

Hi Audacity forum, Not sure what I did, or if it was me. Running vista 32 bit audacity 1.2.6 I have been recording some stuff - obviously. I was editing them today. I decided to wait until later to edit this one file and closed it, don't remember if I saved changes or not, didn't matter as I was go...

Hiya guys. Im having a right head scratcher here. I have a MOTU 24 I/O soundcard. If I drop a wav file into Audacity I can hear it plain as day. However if I try to record any of my hardware synths nothing happens. I have looked through the audi set up and my correct card is selected for both recor...

Hi, I'm a new forum user but I have been using Audacity 1.2 for some time to download old Vinyl and tapes to CD. My OS is XP and I use Roxio or Nero or Windows Media 11 to burn CD's which I have successfully exported from Audacity as Multiple exports using .wav format. After about 6months lay off I...

You may be recording Mix-Out in addition to the microphone or sound channel you were expecting. On a newer machine, that can cause some pitches and notes to cancel out. On older machines, it can cause a clear echo, so those are easy to spot Mix-Out is the setting you need to record internet audio. ...