Hello Audacity – just plunging in. I’m running a Mackbook Air with 10.11.6. Audacity 3.0.0 downloaded and opened and seems pretty immediately understandable. I recorded a show last night on an Allen & Heath Qu16 and the tracks on the hard drive play back beautifully on the board. I’m coming out USB-B to the Mac and have two odd issues.
I can’t figure out how to monitor from the computer. I can see and control levels while recording but the headphone jack seems disabled until I enter playback mode, at which point it works just fine.
Playback of the track on Audacity has a stuttering/popping click in the track. I tried exporting and WAV files contain the click as well. My first thought is that I left the Audacity sampling rate at 44.1 and the A&H is native at 48khz. I’m about to go back and try this but figured I’d post this here for the elucidation of others.
I can’t figure out how to monitor from the computer.
You have the exact opposite problem as all the musical overdubbing forum posters that can’t get the sound to shut up. See: Billw58, above.
Playback of the track on Audacity has a stuttering/popping click in the track. I tried exporting and WAV files contain the click as well. My first thought is that I left the Audacity sampling rate at 44.1 and the A&H is native at 48khz. I’m about to go back and try this but figured I’d post this here for the elucidation of others.
We are elucidated.
That’s more serious. It’s probably not a sampling rate mismatch. In general, that can make your recording run off-speed.
Clicking, ticking and popping during recording can mean you have the wrong computer. Some of the longest forum postings are concerned with fixing those noises. “Try This.” “Have you tried that?” There is no waving a magic wang and have the problem vanish. It’s very similar to the USB microphone “Frying Mosquitoes” Problem, except in this case, there is no convenient post-production filter to get rid of it.
There is a forum post from someone trying to read for audiobooks with clicking. It’s possible they will be editing their chapter readings word-by-word.
How are you transferring the tracks from the A&H to the Mac? Are you recording the USB output of the mixer using Audacity? If so, try the suggestions on this manual page.
Can you copy the files from the mixer to the Mac, then import them into Audacity? That might help.