I’m not sure if anyone else here encountered this issue. I recently updated to Audacity 2.4.2 and since then my recordings (music or sound from various online sources) sound thin, flat and tinny. Almost like a mono recording. Excuse my “terminology”. I’m not an expert, I just want to record stuff. Until the update everything just sounded like the original. Now, it all comes out messed up. I would appreciate some advice on how to improve the sound quality.
Thanks for the quick response. I just checked the audio setting on my notebook. Also ran the troubleshooting. Disabled special effects and spatial sound (whatever that is). One of the troubleshooting’s results is that there is a “generic audio driver” on my notebook. Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing. Funnily enough, I just updated the audio driver via HP’s support assistant three days ago.
Now, I tried recording something again. Still, tinny thin sound with almost now bass. Almost only mids and treble.
Once again, I never encountered this kind of problem and have been using Audacity for years.
I had some time to play around with the settings on Audacity the last couple of days. On the contrary to the loopback via my notebook’s speakers that sounded horrendous, I now loop back through the headphones. The sound quality seems to be just as good as before the trouble started. So, the issue is solved.