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... whether this also removes part of the recorded sound too). I am new to computer recording and using audacity in general, so any advice would be helpful. Any ideas following the investigating you have done so far? Thanks for your help - Colin

... Also, when recording, I do not see anywhere where there it a timer, for example how many minutes into the recording of the tape. That would help to. Can anyone help? Thanks. :)

For Wind 7, forget about Audacity 1.2.x, the recommended version is Audacity 1.3.12. You can check the exact version number in "Help menu > About Audacity" If necessary, download Audacity 1.3.12 from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ What sort of microphone are you using? ...

Thanks all, I have made some further improvements to the sound quality by reducing the Impedance on my moving coil phono stage. I'm currently listening to some test WAVs recorded at 24bit/48hz and they sound very good. However, when I downsample them to Flac they lose a bit of the sparkle. I've also...

... to record from both of my tables at the same time (i.e. 1) change drivers 2) purchase new sound card 3) both of the above 4) other ideas). Your help is much appreciated. Brian

With respect to the Quality settings in Audacity should I set both the 'Real time conversion' and the 'High quality conversion' settings to High quality synch and dither to triangle? "High Quality Sync Interpolation" and "Triangle dither" (or "shaped dither") are good ...

... and now I can't get it back. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling audacity, but the equalization is still messed up. Can you give me any help on this? Thanks in advance!! Julie

For Windows 7 you should be using Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/
(you have posted in the Audacity 1.2 part of the forum)

See here for help recording audio playing from internet: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... trol_Panel

There are potential bear traps if you try to output from your computer sound card into the mixer while using the mixer as the audio input to your computer. Also, unless you have upgraded the sound card in the computer then you will probably get better sound quality by using the Xenyx for both input ...

MR,

these are my Quality settings:
With regards to the Dither settings, have a read of this article in the Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Dither

WC