Audacity frustrations

[egdirdle2013@...]

Hi all 
 

 Trying to record new tapes on Audacity but its driving me round the twist at the moment. I stopped Audacity after inputting Side 1 and now it simply won't monitor the sound waves running across even though the settings were the same. I've done everything to change them since. 
 

 Now I can't remember what worked in the first place. Is there an Audacity for idiots web page somewhere ?