Is there any way to fix this to make everyone clearly understandable all the way through? Are there any ideas as to what might cause this issue and best way to prevent it?
Something very serious happened to the machine at 1 min 7.3 seconds and it stopped managing the sound data. Everything from that point onwards is trash.
Audacity 2.0.0 is six versions old. I’m pretty sure the senior elves are going to urge you to bring the machine up to the current version.
It’s a little rough to troubleshoot something like this long distance. Nothing like this ever happened before, right? Does the machine work right now, after the problem?
Describe the microphone connection. Pretend I’m going to buy the same thing.
The recording becomes crackly because of dropouts and disjointed waveforms where there is still a waveform - zoom in to see it. So it’s a recording problem.