Audacity Forum

... turntable and am trying to digitise my old vinyl collection using Audacity 1.3.4 beta on an Intel iMac running 10.6.8. I've read all the Audacity help pages and user guides (and all the pages of this forum area) and am still unable to find a successful outcome to my problem. WHICH IS... the input ...

... it. Am I missing a setting in Audacity? I am not real techy, but I have tried to figure this out with tutorials etc. to no avail. Thanks for any help you can offer.... gary

... can always use the Amplify of Normalize efffects later in the production process to bring the sound level up. This tutorial in the 1.3 manual may help you: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Recording_with_USB_turntables It's part of this set of tutorials: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Copying_tapes,_LPs_or_minidiscs_to_CD ...

BTW it would help us if you told us the exact make and model number of the USB tape deck that you are using ...

WC

... for working with audacity? Forgive me if this all sounds very naive, but I'm not so much in computers, more in music... ;) Thanks for your help and advise! Pat

I'm using Audacity 1.3.12. Here's the file.

... the Sound Prefs panel open do you see an indication on the Input Level meter that your are getting sound? This article on the Audacity wiki might help: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User:BillWharrie/OSX_and_USB_input_devices -- Bill

... later I realized that every project upon playback was coming with with the issue. Which is where I went and deleted the config praying it might help. There isn't much to how I configure Audacity so I'll just get in the habit of removing the config anytime I update/swap versions to minimize any ...

Please look at Help > About Audacity and give the full-three section version number of Audacity (for example, 1.3.12). There is a problem in line 3 of the .aup file. The .aup can be edited but it would be safest if you made a copy ...

... but it also won't run now. Previous threads discuss replacing audacity.cfg with a downloaded file, but that did not work. I would appreciate any help you could provide. Thanks.