Audacity Forum

I would eliminate the hum before recording, not try to remove it later. You need to decide if its bothersome to you. Generally it is not that hard. Use the ground wire on the TT. Make sure the cartridge connections are right. Connect with 3 wire plug all the devices to the same power outlet. A hum e...

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its an offset voltage in the wave forms
if you try to patch them there will be a jump if there is offset
use normalise to remove the offset

do you have dc offset?
remove it.

tell us how you are doing all this.
have you tried to put silence in the space where you get the pop?
do you still have dc offset?
remove it.

what xlr connectors?

they have 1/4 rca and 3/8 - ignore any xlrs if they have them
and the problem was high level into a mike input
which is what these things do

i don't see ANY drawback to this solution

you can see a lot by looking first page on google Radial J33 Phono Preamp and Turntable DI Box Stereo RCA inputs. Stereo RCA, 1/4 in. TRS and 3.5mm outputs. The Radial J33 is a... direct box that offers a choice of balanced mic-level and -10dB consumer line-level outputs. This allows ... to be conne...

i zoom in at times to get more resolution at the top

i have the bottom set
audacity does not seem to use it though
just a small part of the top

<<A DI unit, DI box, Direct Box, Direct Input, Direct Injection or simply DI is an electronic device that connects a high impedance, line level, unbalanced output signal to a low impedance mic level balanced input , usually via XLR connector. ...>> any of them should work if you have the right adapt...

i was in 24 bit depth.

linear goes from nearly 1 to zero
thatzzalottadeebees!

the db scale only shows a range of about 24 db

clearly i am missing something here that was not explicitly stated

does the display average over the last n samples?

tape out is HIGH level
mike in is LOW level
you need a DI box (and cable adapters) to fix the mismatch
else put your tape out into a line in connector
not all laptops may have that connector