Audacity Forum

Hi,

under preferences/devices I have selected:

Host: MME
Playback: SB Live! 24-bit External
Recording: SB Live! 24-bit External

I can record now that I found the input volume slider defaulted to zero (? silly), but it sounds like I put my speakers in a tin can...

Any tips? Does this External Creative sound have issues with Audacity? Is there anything I can do to increase the quality of my recordings?

Cheers

You also need to make sure you're not playing or recording anything else. In particular, you should not have Mix-Out or What-U-Hear selected. That will give you a very serious echo effect like a very small bathroom.

There are a number of those, like recording from your USB device and the computer built-in microphone.

Turn off or disconnect everything else.

Koz