Audacity Forum

I have tried to record my old cassette tapes with Audacity but the quality obtained is appalling, much worse than the sound of my tapes. The sounds come out distorted. I have tried with three different radio-cassette players and the result has been the same. I don't know if my new jack connector ca...

I have the requisite electronics package We're guessing that you mean that you have a "Yamaha Silent Brass™ Pickup Mute" with the "Yamaha Personal Studio™ STX-2" ? If so, did you read in the user manual : Do not connect the PHONES jack to a microphone jack (or mic/line jack) on ...

When using Jack, the "device" options in the "device toolbar" are not restricted to hardware devices. On that page you can see an example of setting Audacity to connect to Hydrogen drum machine. That's odd. I don't see carla, a plugin host I had running, in the drop down, but I ...

It is also rarely the case that I want programs to connect directly to the hardware inputs. When using Jack, the "device" options in the "device toolbar" are not restricted to hardware devices. On that page you can see an example of setting Audacity to connect to Hydrogen drum m...

What about compression and/or limiting? Compression can affect the sound of the performance and mess up chapter to chapter matching. Limiter less so, but limiter has its limits (so to speak), too. How about if I send you a chunk instead of the whole thing? There's no guarantee that any "volume...

i've read some post about issues with the mic and that got me to wondering if you all have heard anythibg from people using audacity and not being able to record with this soundcard. As long as it has the correct drivers for your version of Windows, it should work. Audacity gets the digital audio s...

If you search the forum for the word "Tinnitus" (search box in top right corner), there's also a couple of other threads on the subject that you may find interesting/useful.

Thank you. Can someone point me to a good "how to put Audacity on a Linux computer using Wine" how-to? If you name the effect we might be able to find a Linux equivalent. Support for WINE may be obtained here: https://www.winehq.org/help . Other solutions such as running a licensed copy o...

You could press the Windows key and type "Troubleshooter" (without quotes) then open the Troubleshooter Control Panel that appears in the search results. In the window that appears, type "Media Player" (without quotes) in the Search box. There are then some troubleshooters you ca...

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