Audacity Forum

My name is Naomi Edwards and I am trying to copy some cassettes to my computer. I finally did figure out how to connect my tape recorder and now I can at least hear the sound coming through my computer. Now the next problem. When I try to record the tape there is an echo of the voice like two people singing but one is a few seconds behind the first voice. For example my son is singing by himself but when I push record in the audacity it comes out as him singing the song twice but one voice is just a few seconds ahead of the other. Does this make sense? I hope so. Can anyone tell me how to sychronize the voice because it is supposed to be just once. Do you know anyone that can help? Am I making myself clear? I am so very new to all of this that it is a miracle that I even got it all hooked up. This is frustrating. I have a lot of cassettes and I wanted to put them all on cd.
thanks for understanding and PLEASE make is very easy step by step instructions.
thanks again
Naomi

onehappyneedle wrote:I finally did figure out how to connect my tape recorder and now I can at least hear the sound coming through my computer. When I try to record the tape there is an echo of the voice like two people singing but one is a few seconds behind the first voice.

Click the Transport Menu and uncheck "Software Playthrough".

For anyone using a 1.2 version of Audacity, click Edit > Preferences: Audio I/O, uncheck "Software Playthrough" and click OK.



Gale