New to Audacity and recording

[Beehindblueyes]

Hello, I just downloaded Audacity and it is just what I was looking for. This is my first time trying to record something and maybe someone could help me with a little problem. I am trying to record something off an old cassette tape that myself and some friends had made many, many years ago. I am the only one with this tape and it's very old so I want to put it onto a cd to save it. I have connected the cassette player, which I only saved just for this reason, to an little portable speaker and it sounds pretty good. Now I want to just use the microphone on my laptop and just use the sound activation to record it into the computer. So I tested this with my voice, just a couple of "testing, testing's" and what I am getting is something like screaming feed back. What can I adjust to stop that? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

BeehindBlueEyes

[steve]

Turn off the computer speakers or plug in some headphones. Does that fix it?

[Beehindblueyes]

The sound was in the recording, turning off the computer speakers would not have helped. A friend figured it out for me. Thanks anyway!

[billw58]

If you got the screaming feedback while you were speaking, then the sound is not in the cassette recording, but a result of feedback between the computer speakers and the computer microphone.

-- Bill