Unwanted Reverb

[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?

[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

[steve]

On Windows "Software Playthrough" should be OFF.

[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!