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... If the signal is clipped before it is converted to digital, then lowering the recording level after it has been converted to digital does not help - it just makes the entire sound quieter. The important setting to avoid clipping is the hardware switch "before" it is converted to ...

Which operating system?
Which version of Audacity? (Not just "latest", look in "Help > About Audacity" for the version number)

... cause this or how to remedy the situation? Heres an example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-zj8U0IPwjWnBVd29weE9tTlE/view?usp=sharing All help is greatly appreciated.

It is recommended you get your existing system working correctly and predictably before you start comparing equipment. Yes! Learn first, spend later. I don't know that Shure 55 intimately, but a dynamic mic like that needs a top notch preamp to get the best out of it. The iRig, while a fairly decen...

It is recommended you get your existing system working correctly and predictably before you start comparing equipment.

If you think of it, pass the equipment list through the forum. We can give you notes on operation and shortcomings.

Also Google "complaints."

Koz

... shows the peak level. The inner lighter shade shows the RMS level. Thanks man, Can someone point to where the two shades are described in the HELP manual, please. It is there in at least one place: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audacity_waveform.html . Oh so there is, but even I as ...

edwinn wrote:

steve wrote:The outer dark shade shows the peak level. The inner lighter shade shows the RMS level.

Thanks man,

Can someone point to where the two shades are described in the HELP manual, please.

It is there in at least one place:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... eform.html.


Gale

Can someone point to where the two shades are described in the HELP manual, please. They aren't yet (somewhat of an oversight) - But Steve's placed a ToDo for us to do it for the next release (the one after the upcoming 2.1.2). The page you'd expect to ...

... It gave me a link to down load a free version. So i did, even though I already had it. Then it said "Could not open MP3 Encodin Library. help!! This is not the same as your previous issues, so I started a new topic for you. Try the zip file of LAME, following http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#maclame_zip ...

... you are not doing something silly like recording at way above 44100 Hz project rate. Check sound effects and enhancements. If that does not help, set Windows not to update hardware drivers as I showed you then install the WHQL driver from the Lenovo site using the link I showed you. Otherwise ...