Audacity Forum

Thank you for including a good sound test. Do you have a short segment of an old show you can post where everything is working?

Koz

... unless you mean that you press Pause after record, in which case please press the yellow Stop button to re-enable the menu items. If that does not help, please give far more detail. Exactly what are you recording with what device (make and model number)? What exactly do you try to do after you ...

I was eating lunch and I passed a "Pro-Looking" video crew also having lunch (three people looking serious). I asked which microphone was inside that wind sock and the techie said it was a Sennheiser 416. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MKH416?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PPC&am...

... it, and I think I've been doing that right. Perhaps I can play with the bit rate more to get the file size still smaller. Thank you both for your help.

I'm going to have to sit down for a minute. Few people get so many things right in one posting. The mic I have is fairly old, and it was made to sit in a hot shoe, plugged into a DV-tape camcorder using a 3.5mm audio jack. First problem. XLR microphones are very carefully matched to their preamplifi...

... the sound is staticy. I have played around with audacity trying to figure out what could be the problem, but I haven't had any luck so far. Please help! I really want to get back to recording! I have attached a file to let you know what it sounds like. Elaina

... I have to align it perfectly so that it's not out of sync. I'm used to Digital Performer and Protools which allow such actions. Thanks for any help. - Peter

Applied all the suggested settings and got the results I wanted. Thanks! I've never dabbled in the recording/playback settings in Windows of any version, so the "1 channel" and "2 channel" differences just didn't add up in my mind. Thanks for your help again. Happy New Year!

Hey everyone— My problem isn't really related to my OS or Audacity functioning incorrectly, but I'll follow the format in case I'm wrong about that: I am running Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), with Audacity 2.0.3 installed. I think I installed it from the DMG, but it was a long time ago, so I don't reme...

... another microphone (Samson CO3) which works fine and the settings are set exactly the same. I have checked the relevant section on the Audacity help page but cannot get it to record. Also, when I tried another program (Total Recorder) the program crashed as soon as I hit Record. Prior to buying ...