Audacity Forum

When I play the record, it sounds like there is nothing but bass. does your preamp have RIAA equalization ? if not all you will get is bass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization there is an almost straight line eq from bass at +20 db to high end at -20 db the correct RIAA eq should be bui...

if it flatlines in the middle then increase the signal coming in initially. These are strange workarounds, I wouldn't want to blast my speakers in order to get the desired input level. this is the normal way to record. you should not blast your speakers. turn down the speakers if you must. better t...

dont know cant say without a lot more info.
i suspect your pc and soundcard settings but who knows without all the info about your configuration and settings etc.

if you told us the make model and serial nr of both laptops along with info on the opsys and all the settings/options you used and what you did to try to use it to record then maybe someone might have some ideas.

well if the $200 soundcard doesnt work right .........do you fight the problem or do what does work? i believe the best solution is to raise the level from the preamp to the soundcard andor increase the level at the soundcard. sometimes you just have to move the knobs to make everything work right. ...

... If you care, it looks like I'm leaning toward a Mac, due to the reliablilty. .... do you have hard data done by an independent lab that shows that macs are more reliable ? which model? more reliable than what? with which operating systems? i lean toward pcs cause they have been fully reliable f...

yup
many of the built in sound card circuits are pretty bad and unreliable

wow i cut my 600+ LPs down to about 25-30 which i really want to hear again and that I am going to put on cd and about 10 or so cassettes now in a few years what are we going to do with all our cds when they are totally obsolete and some newfangled holographic device is the latest fad technology eve...

yes there is an optimum. should be low enough to avoid clipping ever and high enough to avoid thermal type noise being heard (not external noises like horns honking chairs squeaking) switch to db mode forget linear display do a test recording set the highest points to be at least -18db down (i use -...

everything has a limit (except for some pathological mathematical functions). can you merge them one at a time instead of doing 8 at once?
how did you get 8 tracks from a video recorder?
with that many tracks why not render a high quality two track stereo wav file instead of mp3?