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Unwanted Reverb

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:26 pm
by truthinwellness
Recording from internet and I hear music perfectly. as soon as I hit record I get a reverb. I have not seleced any effects. When I hit pause...reverb remains...when I hit stop it immediately goes away. What setting is causing this?

Re: Unwanted Reverb

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:34 pm
by kozikowski
Windows, right?

It's really easy to get multiple pathways running on a Windows machine and having too many pathways open in Audacity doesn't help much.

Assume you've followed all the instruction in the wiki page...

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

You can, as an experiment, go into Audacity preferences and deselect "Play Track While Recording New Ones," "Hardware Playthrough," and "Software Playthrough." Restart Audacity and make a recording. You may not be able to hear what you're doing, but the red recording meters will bounce, you'll get a recording, and it should be missing the echoes.

It's not really reverb, right? It's echoes?

Koz

Re: Unwanted Reverb

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:18 pm
by steve
On Windows "Software Playthrough" should be OFF.

Re: Unwanted Reverb

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:52 pm
by truthinwellness
Yes...it worked. it's funny ... I tried removing overdub and didn't try removing software play though. I am new to audacity...Thanks!