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Which version of Linux?
Which version of Audacity?
What are you trying to record from?
Please post the FULL contents of "Audacity Help menu > Audio device info" in your reply.

Sorry to post again, but since my comments are waiting for a mod to approve I had to post again.

I just re-read my post and where I said:

but what I did was changing owner:group to admin:wheel

should be read as root:wheel

My bad!

It was myuser:admin. All other applications were assigned to MacOs defaults (root:wheel). I just changed Audacity to that owner (root) and group(wheel). 

... Try it with settings of: * 60 (Hz) * 8 * 1 * 1 An isolation transformer may indeed help, but they're not cheap. You could also try the cheap option of plugging into a different socket. Avoid having different bits of your audio kit ...

... Audacity 2.1.2 release, please obtain it from http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows . Having an old version of Audacity is not going to help stability. Save Audacity projects to your own Music or Documents folder. As Koz, said backing up by exporting to WAV is the best bet if saved projects ...

I had the same problem. Macos Sierra "clean install", which means Mac OS X internet install (Lion) then upgrade to Sierra. I don't have this problem anymore. Don't know if it will work for others, but what I did was changing owner:group to admin:wheel (run in terminal: sudo chown -R root:...

I had the same problem. Macos Sierra "clean install", which means Mac OS X internet install (Lion) then upgrade to Sierra. I don't have this problem anymore. Don't know if it will work for others, but what I did was changing owner:group to admin:wheel (run in terminal: sudo chown -R root:w...

... and dragging the group in and out of folders together. I promised listeners to have my audio posted in time for Halloween, do I have a chance? Help is very very much appreciated!

The only other option I can think of, other than vocoder, is an envelope-follower,
e.g. ... http://freesound.org/people/bgygi/sounds/41727/

In my project, I'm trying to edit these audio clips of animal sounds. I want to make them sound like they are coming from a person. Obviously changing the pitch helps, but I feel like I'm losing something in the sound when I just change that. Vocoding the voice with the animal sound ? ... Dubya, be...