Slight echo on record

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi all,

I’m a first time user of Audacity, I was on a BBC 6 Music show the other day and I’d like to record it for posterity. I’m on Windows 7 and have Audacity ver 2.02

I have gone into the control panel and enabled the Realtek High Definition Audio (and disabled the microphone).

In Audacity I have the Audio Host set to windows direct sound and Stereo Mix (Realtek High Definition Audio) selected as the input device.

I am using external speakers plugged into my Acer Laptop which I’ve turned off during the recording.

And yet I am getting a slight echo (as if I’m in a large warehouse) on the recording - It’s nothing like the echo I get if Software playthrough is turned on.

I only have 5 days left to resolve this before the show goes from the BBC site.

Any clues?

Thanks
Nick

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Maybe this?
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#enhancements

Koz

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Thanks. That wasn’t it but it did point me in the right direction. In speakers/Enhancements I tried ‘Disable all sound effects’ and that worked.
so thanks again.

Nick