I bought a Reshow cassette player a month ago for the sole purpose of digitizing old family cassettes. Many of these recordings are of someone playing piano and singing. Until yesterday, everything was working fine. Today, only the voice records, with just a few instances of hearing the piano but warped in the background. The voice volume is also dropping out occasionally. But on the tape itself, everything sounds fine. I changed no settings. What could be wrong?
I uninstalled and reinstalled Audacity. I rescanned, tried some stuff I found online… nada. My thought now is, could it be the cable between the cassette player and the laptop? Oh, I have closed all other programs, there is no drain on resources.
Did you get any Windows updates yesterday, by any chance?
Mark B
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Make sure Windows “enhancements” are turned OFF.
A Windows update may have enabled them. Windows seems to be getting “very good” at filtering-out everything but spoken voice…
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Thanks for your speedy reply Mark. I do see 2 Windows configuration updates from April 4. I actually just checked the dates of my last successful recordings, and indeed they are from prior to April 4. (When I said “yesterday” I guess I meant “a few days ago”, lol. ) What now? Uninstall the windows updates? I’m not sure I can, or would know which part of it caused the issue…
whoa… let me go check that setting Doug. Be right back…I have Windows 11 for anyone who is followng this.
WE’RE BACK IN BUSINESS! I turned off enhancement settings, which were actually now called “Default Device Effects” for the sound properties for ALL devices, not just speakers or microphones. Thank you!
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