Audacity Forum

If it's an electric guitar and you're plugged into a newer Windows laptop, you may be stuck in overload and Windows conferencing services. Windows will try to bring voices up and suppress everything else for tools like Skype. If you don't turn that off, it may make your performances sound terrible. ...

Can anyone help please? It's probably something really simple but I'm a new user and it's driving me mad trying to find an answer. Here's the problem: Audacity is not recognising a pause/silence when playing back my voice recording. ...

Some more info about your setup would be helpful... What kind of guitar do you have, how are you connecting it to your laptop? What kind of mic are you using? What operating system do you have on your laptop? Tell us as much as you can about your gear.

im new this...but i hooked my guitar up to my lab top...and when i record it has an echo like a delay in my clear guitar sound....and when i record its at very low volume at playback..help thanks

... sounds awful - like the track's been recorded down a lengthy corridor with background hiss. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for your help, Andy

Hello. I've become overwhelmed looking at different recorders, and I thought I would finally just seek help. I'm looking for a recorder with the following features: - To be mostly used to record interviews, but it would be nice if it could also record high quality musical ...

... my vocal background singing "ah" is slightly flat for about a half bar. I don't want to have to re-do the whole phrase for that if I can help it, especially since it's in a tough place to punch. Adobe Audition has a "pitch correction" effect built in that works pretty well for ...

I need help ASAP!

When I export a short audio clip (5-6 minutes long) as an MP3, the file ends up really large, like 5 MB. That seems huge for such a short audio piece.

How do I reduce that size? Please write in really basic language because I'm not a techie at all!

... same sound card - the Cakewalk UA-1G. But it works, too, with my onboard card. It appears that Audacity is indeed using the WASAPI audio. Audacity help page states ASIO and WASAPI aren't supported????? Am I missing something? Probably! Btw, the reason I bought the Cakewalk UA-1G was because of ...

... as you can use it for format conversion? I'm about 1/3 of the way through my several hundred album collection and it's really getting old. Any help or tips are appreciated. Lyle