Audacity Forum

So I'm having some issues recording, obviously. I have used Audacity 1.2 a bit on another computer with Windows XP, but I just got a laptop with Windows 7 and so I downloaded the beta version. Today I hooked up my microphone through a small mixer and into my laptop via the microphone input. I made a click track then recorded a single guitar track and it sounded fine for a few seconds but then it started sounding funny, kind of like a phaser, but it really sounded like when you select the entire track and do the "noise-removal" effect. I didn't adjust any settings since I downloaded and didn't use the noise-removal effect or anything. I'm hard-pressed to find the problem. If anybody knows how to fix my issue, I will be extremely appreciative!

<<<I'm hard-pressed to find the problem.>>>

Because you may have more than one.

Go into Audacity Preferences and leave "Play Tracks while Recording New Ones" checked, but deselect both Hardware Playthrough and Software Playthrough. Restart Audacity.
Open Windows Control Panels and make sure you don't have Mix-Out, Stereo-Mix, or What-U-Hear selected to record. Just the Mic-In.

Try a recording again.

And down at the bottom of the pile, you probably can't connect your mixer to your computer directly. Mic-In on the laptop and Line-Out of the mixer do not match.

Straighten out the echoes and flanging first and we can go from there.

Koz

I could only find the software playthrough option and it was unchecked. It was under the "recording" header in preferences and the only two (seemingly) relevant options were "overdubbing" and the aforementioned software playthrough. Where will those options be at in the control panel? and I run my mixer out the red and white plugs through a cord that has male red and white plugs and a small male 3.5mm jack on the other end. I've used it in the past without problems.

You also have to dig in the Windows Control Panels and make sure the microphone or Line-In or whatever yours says is the only thing selected. Not Mix-Out, Stereo-Mix or What-U-Hear.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz