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Given the spectrum picture above, did you try recording on top of your old tube-type TV set, microwave oven, or other electrically noisy appliance? This is sometimes a little magic but appliances that generate radiation (and they're surprisingly common) can get into a recording with buzz and hum. So...

The Blue instructions have the microphone following the volume controls in Windows Control Panels. If the USB Microphone setting got adjusted down, that will give you very noisy performances. You can get surprising automatic adjustments if you use Skype or other voice or conferencing software. Newer...

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Thanks for your help. Everything works fine now (as you would expect).

The hissing records right into Audacity. If the mic volume is turned up you can see the noise as it records. Attachments blueyetisoundtest.mp3 The most conspicuous noise I can hear is mains hum , (rather than hiss ), which shows up as clear peaks on the frequency analysis … mains hum peaks approx 6...

>< Not sure why that happened. I'll attach the mp3.

Looks like I'm getting the same sound in Windows Sound Recorder.

The hissing records right into Audacity. If the mic volume is turned up you can see the noise as it records.

... reverb from Anwida. The download is a ZIP archive file, so you need to extract the contents into your Audacity plug-ins folder (shout if you need help doing that). Open Audacity and go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Effects" Ensure that the VST options are enabled and tick "Rescan ...

... you have a choice of booting into Windows or into a different operating system. If you are interested in exploring this option I can probably help you as I've done this quite a few times. The initial step would be to try out a "Live CD" version of Linux (runs Linux directly from ...

Hiya, thanks for your help so far. I have audacity 1.3.12-beta! I am operating windows 7 64bit. I'm using 'Dreampoint Freeverb' but it doesn't say which version. I just want some parameters I can punch in to the freeverb to give me 'cathedral' ...

... not so concerned about, but I would like the vocals to sound clear and full, without distortion or that heavily processed quality. Thanks for any help!