Audacity Forum

I may help if I tell you what camcorder I'm using. It's a Sony Handycam HDR-XR 260

... time, the save step, and all later steps through burning a CD, worked, albeit with a lot of fits and starts. Go figure! Thanks for your offers of help!

Audacity doesn't process sounds in real time. So, you can enhance/alter MP3s or WAV files, but Audacity is not going to help with DVDs, the TV, or CDs. If your soundcard has any "enhancements", it may have an equalizer. An equalizer is basically a fancy tone control, which ...

... (juxtaposing talking next to silence). The playback of the background really is different depending on where I start playing the file. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks. Mike

Plugging a bass guitar into a microphone input is unlikely to work well. You would do better plugging into a proper "instrument" input, such as one of these: http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCG102.aspx Note - there are also some cheap Chinese copies of this device - don't be tempted ...

... poor. I am trying to use Audacity to reduce the distortion, but I'm struggling with it. It dont have to be perfect, just listenable. can anyone help guide me with this, or is the audio beyond repair. Many thanks to all that help..

The other thing you can do is get a microphone plugged into your PC and record the sound coming from your amp. Personally I prefer to record guitars and bass guitars with a mic, but not plugged directly into a typical computer mic input (they are usually between mediocre and appalling quality), but...

The other thing you can do is get a microphone plugged into your PC and record the sound coming from your amp.

The behringer device looks good though. I would suggest trying that.

Damien

Plugging a bass guitar into a microphone input is unlikely to work well. You would do better plugging into a proper "instrument" input, such as one of these: http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCG102.aspx Note - there are also some cheap Chinese copies of this device - don't be tempted -...

I'm using the microphone port and a 1/4" to 1"8 adapter (yes, I checked the manual about that) and pretty much none of my notes on the E string are being recorded, save for maybe the 15th fret and onward. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance. Sounds like a consequence of impedan...