bad sound

[Jack R]

Hello I am new first time useing soft ware & don't know what I am doing. When I record & play it back it sound really bad to many different sounds to tell echo, it just sound really bad wobby bad. I am using win 7 & RCA to 1/8 mic. in on a Acer laptop & nice cass. recorder, don't know what kind of sound card it has but once time I recorded it came out really good but when I tryed again I can not get it right now don't know what I did or what happen to make it bad? I think my sound setting is to hot but don't know how to turn it down it is on the lowest setting on the input but it still looks to hot! something is set wrong but don't know what.

[Gale Andrews]

Sorry for delay. If you still need help:

You can turn the input level down in the Audacity Mixer Toolbar or in Windows (step 5 here ). However if you record into the mic port it will be too loud. Record into the line-in port, or see if the laptop has a way to set the mic port to line-level. See no line-in. Try recording from the headphones out of the cassette deck if you cannot control the level. That way you can turn the output down using the cassette deck volume control.

Make sure you do not record from the input meant for recording computer playback. If you also have software playthrough enabled in the Audacity Recording Preferences, then recording computer playback will cause an echo.


Gale