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Turn off "Software Playthrough" (near the bottom of the "Transport" menu).

Sorry for delay. If you still need help: You can turn the input level down in the Audacity Mixer Toolbar or in Windows (step 5 here ). However if you record into the mic port it will be too loud. Record into the line-in port, or ...

Turn off "Software Playthrough" (near bottom of the Transport menu). If you're using a USB microphone, then unfortunately that will mean that you will not be able to monitor your voice through the headphones while you are recording (it's a limitation of most USB microphones). If you're usi...

You may be listening to the sound of the bass after it has done a round trip through Audacity.
Go into "Preferences" (Edit menu) and in the "Audio I/O" tab, if "software playthrough" is selected, de-select it.

... recording "Software Playthrough" should be OFF (not selected). As Trebor has indicated, Software Playthrough always produces some delay and is unavoidable. Have we established what sort of computer, what operating system, what sort of sound card? With the exception of USB microphones ...

... recording "Software Playthrough" should be OFF (not selected). As Trebor has indicated, Software Playthrough always produces some delay and is unavoidable. Have we established what sort of computer, what operating system, what sort of sound card? With the exception of USB microphones ...

... via Line-In. Any ideas? If you are monitoring the "live" guitar via headphones plugged into the computer you are going to get another delay problem called "software playthrough" delay ... Software playthrough introduces its own delay (different from latency) which you will ...

Switch off (deselect) "Software Playthrough" in Preferences.

What you are heading is "playthrough delay" and there is nothing you can do about it short of turning Software Playthrough off. Go to the Transport menu and turn Software Playthrough off, then listen through the mixer headphones only.

-- Bill

Switch off "Software Playthrough" (near the bottom of the Transport menu).
If you need to monitor the input through your headphones, do so from the headphone socket on the USB sound card.