Audacity Forum

Thanks all... The pop does not saturate or display any red verticle lines. Looks like I just have to work a little harder isolating this pop.

Russ

I have successfully transfered original music I recorded on 8-track tape back in 1974 using Audacity. As maybe a few people know in this forum about 8-track tapes, there is a piece of foil that signals the player to switch tracks. This switching leaves a "pop" in the recorded transfer. Removing this...

No matter what I do with Win XP Sound options or the Realtek Audio Manager, I get the same results...line input too hot. I believe the problem to be with the incompatibilty of Audacity program and my computer. Case in point, the audacity program indicates that I am using a microphone as my input. I ...

I muted the output so no sound was coming from the speakers. Results are the same... See pic.

I am using a HP Pavillion a1530n Desktop computer. Not sure if that makes in difference.. Not sure why output to speakers should have anything to do with recording from a tape deck. I do not have any microphones even connected. I give the other suggestions a try and get back later with an update. Russ

I am using the line input on my computer (Win XP) to capture audio from a tape recorder to the hard drive using Audacity 1.2.6. The orginal recording sounds good and plays back well though the computer speakers, clean sound with no distortion. The problem is when recording, the input levels are too ...