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You have to be in Stop mode and not just Pause mode for the effects to work.

WC

SteveTF's on holidaty thios week - and he is our resident Nyquister - so you may have to wait a little while for a propere reply

WC

goldtiger wrote:how would I turn it down a bit to get it exactlly how I want it?

You can apply negative amplification with the amplify effect - experimentation is what you need to do.

WC

No - it is your vsoundcard that is applying the DC offset - you need to fix that Probably by replacing the soundcard or using an external USB soundcard). Or put up with the workaround as Audacity does no processing in realtime while recording (though this is an oft requested feature request).

WC

You really need to upgrade to 1.3.12 – ignore the Beta labelling a.3 is actually more stable on most modern platforms that the now ancient 1.2 – and 1.3 has many new useful features It would be good if the software could be played back at twice the normal speed and 1.5 times the normal speed so the ...

ESL-57 Electrostatic speakers? Just looked them up. Are they the slim, "flat monitor", design? Do they produce a constant bass & mid tone through the floor, as is now? Yup that's them squarish looking curved slightly and standing on 3 wooden legs (look a bit like heaters/radiators to ...

or you could generate a 7-second silence and place it in your paste buffer by using CTRL+C or Edit>Copy

Then just move your cursor to each required position and press CTRL+V to paste the silence at each location.

WC

You have what is know as DC-offset - normally a fault with your soundcard - and yours looks a fairly extreme case.

You can correct for it after recording by using the Normalize effect. Do the DC-offset correction immediately after capture - but =do not at that stage apply any normalization.

WC

Voyez (en Anglais seulement malheuresment): http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

WC

Are you plugging in the USB turntable and turning it on before you fire up Audacity?

WC