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I suspect that your sound card is the problem, but it would be good to eliminate the possibility of the microphone / pre amp combination first. Do you have any way of testing it? could you for example do a test recording with it on some other equipment? I used this combination on three different co...

Hi everybody, I've been using Audacity for about a year now, usually pretty happy with the results I got when recording voice, guitar or whistle. There was always quite some background static but I thought there wasn't really something I could do to remedy that. However, some time ago a friend of mi...

you might use the 'noise removal' option (in Effects -> Noise removal) to loose the backing; in the original file (with vocals and backing), select a few seconds of the song where there's no singing but as many different instruments as possible. go to the noise removal and click "get noise profile"....

There are very many free .WAV-to-.MP3 converters available on the web. I use one literally called "WAV to MP3 encoder" built and owned by Mthree Development; a very simple interface, you just load all the wav files you want to convert into the program (you can select multiple files if they are in th...

that's too bad.., but thanks for the help!

the input should work like you say, putting a microphone in front of an amp sometimes causes unwanted sound but clearly with you that's not the problem. Maybe in some way the input volume was set to zero, whether you did it yourself by accident or the program did it for you because of some bug? I ca...

Hi there, I'm having problems importing .MIDI files into Audacity. I create the .MIDI files using Power Tab Editor, they seem all fine to me, I can play them with every mediaplayer I got on this pc. Importing them into Audacity works but when I try to actually play them Audacity says "Error while op...