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I've downloaded Audacity to make voice recordings on CD. It has worked only once. Another time it did record, but the volume was barely audible. Now, a box comes on screen announcing an error and to check the audio settings. How can I make a CD voice recording?
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kahrabaiya
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I'm trying to transfer audiocassettes to my computer. When I tested the audio before recording, though, it sounded like buzzing and not much else. I recorded a sample and it also sounds like buzzing. NONE of the online helps that I've been able to find discuss how to fix this.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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kozikowski
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Describe your machine and how you have it connected. There must be a thousand different ways to do this and they all have different problems. Do you have a lap top? Which Windows? Pretend you're on the phone trying to talk your sister in Schenectady through wiring up hers the same way as yours.
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Have you seen this titorial on the Wiki: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... uter_or_CDkahrabaiya wrote: NONE of the online helps that I've been able to find discuss how to fix
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kahrabaiya
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Koz,
the cable is plugged into the headphone jack on the tape deck and the microphone jack on my laptop. I'm running on Windows XP.
the cable is plugged into the headphone jack on the tape deck and the microphone jack on my laptop. I'm running on Windows XP.
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kozikowski
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<<<headphone jack on the tape deck and the microphone jack on my laptop.>>>
Then that's probably where most of the fuzzy sound is coming from. Headphone level and "line" level are close sisters of each other. They're both about a thousand times louder than the microphone connection on your laptop is expecting--so it's overloading. You can keep turning the headphone volume down and the Audacity volume up and eventually, you'll hit settings that produce good recordings. It's possible that the headphone control will be all the way down when that happens and the show may sound a little funny.
Dig in the instructions for your laptop and see if the connector on the side will switch between Line and Mic levels. Some do.
Another problem with the Mic connection, it's mono, not stereo.
Koz
Then that's probably where most of the fuzzy sound is coming from. Headphone level and "line" level are close sisters of each other. They're both about a thousand times louder than the microphone connection on your laptop is expecting--so it's overloading. You can keep turning the headphone volume down and the Audacity volume up and eventually, you'll hit settings that produce good recordings. It's possible that the headphone control will be all the way down when that happens and the show may sound a little funny.
Dig in the instructions for your laptop and see if the connector on the side will switch between Line and Mic levels. Some do.
Another problem with the Mic connection, it's mono, not stereo.
Koz