Help for Audacity on Windows.
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.
Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at
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Will2sr5
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by Will2sr5 » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:27 pm
Hi!
My name is Will and I am having difficulty with playback sound after a recording. What is my problem, and how can I fix it? Is ther a video I can view?
I do have sound when recording, just not any when play back. Will appreciate your advice.
Thank you very much.
Will
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kozikowski
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by kozikowski » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:35 pm
Describe your computer and how you're listening. Do you have headphones plugged into the green soundcard socket? What are you recording? USB microphone?
Which Windows and which Audacity?
Koz
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Will2sr5
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by Will2sr5 » Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:07 pm
I am using windows 7
I am using Audacity 2.0.3
I am using external mike ( cassette player).
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Will2sr5
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by Will2sr5 » Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:13 am
Ok, now that I have playback, I get an echo. Is there a change of setting to get rid of the echo?
Would it be 1950s music could be mono instead of stereo?
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:43 am
Will2sr5 wrote:I am using windows 7
I am using Audacity 2.0.3
I am using external mike ( cassette player).
2.0.3 is very old. I recommend the latest 2.1.0 from
http://web.audacityteam.org/download/windows.
Recording music from a cassette player with an external microphone is desperation measures. If you have a separate line-in (blue) and mic in (pink), connect to the line-in and choose the line-in as recording device in Audacity's
Device Toolbar.
After obtaining 2.1.0, see
Copying tapes, LPs and other media to CD or computer - Audacity Manual.
Will2sr5 wrote:Now that I have playback, I get an echo. Is there a change of setting to get rid of the echo?
Choose the correct recording device in Device Toolbar. If you record from the external mic, choose that as the recording device. If you record from stereo mix or the internal mic in error you may record echoes.
Gale
