Hello All.
I am new to Audacity, but not new to recording software.
I am sorry to have to ask such a simple question, but I cannot find the answer
in manuals, help, forums - or at least I do not know what terms to search for…
I am making my first recording (a sax track).
I’ve created a Rhythm track (i.e. a click track).
I record a few bars - all is fine BUT
in the playback there is a “THUMP” on beat 1 of every measure (click track is muted). I tried exporting to mp3
but the THUMP is still there.
How do I eliminate this?
Thanks and in future hopefully my questions will not be so trivial. 
Windows 10
Audacity 2.3.3
well…33 views and no one has an idea?
I’m surprised.
I am going to guess that it is the click bleeding from my headphones
into what I thought was a less sensitive mic.
Till later then…
Post one of the thumps. You can post up to 10 seconds of stereo.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-post-an-audio-sample/29851/1
Dynamic (Moving Coil) microphones are the only ones with no real overload point. Home condenser microphones will cheerfully overload and cause terrific distortion in the face of a brass instrument.
Koz
Thank you all.
And I hope you will accept my apology…
I was wearing a headset when making the recording (I was playing the sax part)
and just this morning I discovered that, in spite of how I set up the various inputs
to my laptop, the microphone on the headset over-rode them all.
So indeed, there was click track bleeding from my ear phones into that mic.
I have since replaced the headset with headphones and all is OK.
SO SORRY!
I do have another perhaps short answer question, which must be in the manual but I have
yet to find the answer.
Audacity default seems to be to begin new recording at the end of where it was last stopped.
How do I over-ride that?
Perhaps someone can just point me at the correct section of the manual?
I am having a hell of a time trying to punch in, or add new tracks.
e.g.
This morning I created a click track 70 bars long (hopefully correctly by using "Generate->Rhythm track).
Then when I want to record, it jumps to the end of the 70 bars, no matter what I do…
Again, thanks to all.
