Audacity Forum

The ART pre-amps would be an obvious brand to look at. They are a well known manufacturer of USB pre-amps and regularly get good reviews. If you are using the ribbon mic, you will need a pre-amp that has a lot of gain (amplification) as the output of ribbon mics tend to be very low, so the "AR...

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3

(Google is your friend .... )

WC

And while Audacity will paly audio - it is not designed to nbe a music player - it is designed to be an editor.

You need a music jukebox software like iTunes or one of the many others.

WC

I think Steve suggested a similar device a while back in this thread. And personally I agree with one of Steve's earlier comments in this thread in that the iMic is the weak link in your recording chain - the forum is littered with folk who have problems with iMics. I put iMic on my shortlist (along...

Have you moved the little control box (pentagonal ideogram with two right angles at the top and point at the bottom) and left it all the way over to the left on the output slider, right by the minus sign?

WC

In the end, I think I am still bound for the Radio Shack to pick up an RCA male-to-female adapter of some sort so I can go back to my original plan of connecting my good TT to the inPort, which came with a very long male-to-male RCA cable (25'-30'). I believe my main TT has a hard-wired RCA output ...

Hi Steve, glad you got it working - and good to hear that the documentation in the Wiki was accurate and useful (one of the other documenters commented recently that we have the problem of beeing experienced users but trying to get into the midset of inexperinced ones to explain what is going on ). ...

Like most things, it's only simple when you know how ....

WC

Turn off the Snap To setting - see bottom left of Audacity Window - untick the Snap To box

WC

There is a toolbar in Audacity called the "Mixer Toolbar" it has to sliders that can be moved left and right along sliding reticulated scales with a minus at one end amd a plus at the other. The lefthand one is the output volume comtrol, it has a speaker icon at the left of it - the one on...