Audacity Forum

First post on this site so I am hoping someone may be able to help? My darling wife bought me a SE Electronics X1 USB Mic for Christmas and I am having terrible trouble getting Audacity to recognise the new mic. I am running windows 7. I have looked on ...

... stop on its own...and it happened a second time at 17:xx mins and and a third time at 15:xx mins. I read somewhere that disabling play-through can help. Has anyone experienced this? Kindly help. Thanks. Durai

Thanks for the help!

Trebor~

THANK YOU very much for responding and doing so so quickly. This was a BIG help for a NEWBIE to Audacity.

Yea the voice and audio are all one file, looks like I'll need to rerecord, thanks for your help

... volume over the rest of the audio in any way? Kind of reverse what happened during the recording? I have Windows 7 and Audacity version 2.1.1. Any help if possible would be amazing.

Yes, Koz, there are books. :D And some of these even touch subjects such as "Alternate data streams". But I've never encountered anyone who understands what they really are. Most books don't even touch the subject. I don't know any software that uses ADS, except for one very old, very nast...

... half way through the installer. Say yes when you launch Audacity and it asks if you want to reset Preferences. This is not very likely to help, but it may be worth trying. Investigating if you can obtain Windows 10 audio drivers for your computer is something you should do anyway, unless ...

Nobody seems to really understand NTFS formatting, as there is no documentation. No modern documentation. " Inside the NT File System " Helen Custer Microsoft Press 1994 I bought it at Barnes and Noble in 1996. " Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit " (list of contribut...

Golden rule #1 when working with audio editors or DAW's: make a project, save it. Don't ever move it. And read the docs about projects. This is the reason for failure #1 with any audio tool. The way I use Audacity, I never save projects. I import or record source files, treat them according to the c...