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Didn't even know there are turntables directly with an USB connector... (Pretty convenient for digitizing your vinyl records though) Actually most of them are fairly rubbishy - you'd be better off with a decent TT, preamp and external USB soundcard. I started out with a USB TT but soon junked it - ...

Also do yourself a favour and upgrade to the latest, recently released, Audacity 2.0.6

You can get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

WC

On my Windows 7 laptop (I'm a Windows Elf) there is an app that came with the onboard soundcard which "helpfully" adds special sound services to make the PC audio "sound better". I had to turn off all those "helpful services" to get proper straightforward recording of s...

I fixed this for you before approving the post - so rest assured it was never publicly seen

WC

... I am sure this would be easier to diagnose if I could induce the problem with some predictability.... Yup indeed - the developers/QA have the same problem too - there are a few bugs listed for Audacity which are tagged as "moonphase" as they occur only with certain phases of the moon ...

Most of what I know about transcribing vinyl is contained in this Tutorial set in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html Especially this workflow one: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sample_workflow_for_lp_digitization.html and as you...

Thanks for that feedback Richard. Is it really true that "all UK schools have Audacity"? That is amazing if so. Not many of the Audacity Team read the Forum, particularly the developers - it's mainly a few of us QA folk that act as the Forum-elves, but I have copied a link to this post for...

Well I'd start with a good read of the Manual - see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/auto_duck.html

glad to be of help

You get a lot more than 2 decimal places if you double-click on the sliders to pop up the dialog box (and that's ben the case for a long while).

And IIRC the two decimal places came in a while back with 2.0.4 (we're now two releases on from that with 2.0.6)

WC