Recording problems
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Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
Recording problems
Hi i downloaded the audacity 1.2 version for windows 7. Im recording from a guitar so i took the audio cable from my record out on my amp to my laptop with an adapter on the audio cable so i can plug it into my mic input jac. it records fine for about 2 seconds until it fades itnto an electronic noise. how do i fix this problem?
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Re: Recording problems
Three problems right away.
-- You should probably be using Audacity 1.3. I would expect Audacity 1.2 to have problems with Win7. Audacity 1.3 has very much better tools than 1.2 and is much more stable (in spite of what the labels say).
-- Mic-In on the laptop is mono and expecting a really tiny, delicate mono microphone signal, not the powerful stereo signal from the amplifier, so even if we resolve everything else, you may get crunchy sound and you won't be able to stop it.
-- Many modern laptops come set for conferencing and Skype. That means the Mic-In tries to echo cancel and auto level set. That's what gives you the oddball volume changes.
I don't know that there is one place to turn all that off. You may never resolve any distortion issues because of the sound level differences. Dig in the Windows Sound control panels.
Most people trying to do this use an external sound card (or a Mac). We reviewed some of them here.
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477
Koz
-- You should probably be using Audacity 1.3. I would expect Audacity 1.2 to have problems with Win7. Audacity 1.3 has very much better tools than 1.2 and is much more stable (in spite of what the labels say).
-- Mic-In on the laptop is mono and expecting a really tiny, delicate mono microphone signal, not the powerful stereo signal from the amplifier, so even if we resolve everything else, you may get crunchy sound and you won't be able to stop it.
-- Many modern laptops come set for conferencing and Skype. That means the Mic-In tries to echo cancel and auto level set. That's what gives you the oddball volume changes.
I don't know that there is one place to turn all that off. You may never resolve any distortion issues because of the sound level differences. Dig in the Windows Sound control panels.
Most people trying to do this use an external sound card (or a Mac). We reviewed some of them here.
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477
Koz