What would be the right place to add the following tip to the Recording FAQs?
I was having trouble with crackling sounds/other strange noises/delays and was greatly helped by the following tip:
Set the Project Rate bottom left of the Audacity screen to 44100 Hz (or if your soundcard only uses a particular rate such as 48000 Hz, set the project rate to that). Look at Help > Audio Device Info… to see the rates the device claims to support.
However, it wasn’t enough to get the values in Windows to match. I also had to make sure they matched the settings in my Zoom H1. So, I’d like to put something like the following blurb in the FAQ:
Set the Project Rate bottom left of the Audacity screen to 44100 Hz (or if your soundcard only uses a particular rate such as 48000 Hz, set the project rate to that). Look at Help > Audio Device Info… to see the rates the device claims to support. If your sound devices also have bitrate or quality settings, make sure those match too.
It does say that further down, where more detail is given about the different places where you might need to set the device rate.
If you are recording with a USB or Firewire interface, sample rates and number of recording channels must be the same everywhere. Match the Audacity project rate and the number of recording channels set in the Audacity preferences with those specified:
in the Windows Control Panel or Apple Audio MIDI Setup
in any software control panel the device has
on any hardware control the device has.
For the Manual for the next 2.1.2 release, I have rearranged the bullets so that the bullets about sample rates are together.