Pulsing sound being inserted into recording (SOLVED)

foxtrot048 · Post by **foxtrot048** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:07 pm

Win XP. Audacity 2.0, Firefox browser, DSL connection.

I have clicked on something and the following problem has started:

I launch Audacity and click on the orange "record" button and I can hear a pulsing tone being inserted into the recording. When I try to record sound from a Youtube video, the sound that I hear sounds like that the singer is in an echo chamber. I caused this problem while using the old version of Audacity and I installed version 2.0 (exe installer) hoping that this would go away, but no luck. I don't know what I did to cause this problem and I don't know how to fix it. Hope you can help. I don't know much about Audacity, but I have had very good luck with it in the past when trying to record sound from You tube or any other audio on the internet.

JAS

Post by **steve** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:53 pm

Look in the Transport menu and ensure that "Software Playthrough" is not enabled.

foxtrot048 · Post by **foxtrot048** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:57 am

That was the problem. I unchecked it and everything sounds normal now and the recording sounds great.

Thanks for your help with this problem.

JAS

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