[peel] Audacity frustrations

[Stuart Brooks]

Hi Karl

I did a search for Audacity For Idiots and came across this
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
But that is for an earlier version.

The latest manual is available http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/ and within that is a beginners’ recording guide http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/record.html

The fact that it suddenly stopped working with nothing having changed, means that something might have been changed by accident, or something has broken, eg audio lead.

So it’s back to troubleshooting, e.g. can you hear the sound of the deck through the PC speakers, is there anything on side B, is the record button pressed on Audacity (the meters only move if it is), is the record level set high enough, is the correct input selected, and not muted in the Volume Control Panel, can you get the meters moving by recording What You Hear while playing something back using Windows Media Player.

My own settings within Audacity are:
On the 4 drop down menu buttons
Audio Host: WIndows Direct Sound
Output Device: Primary Sound Driver
Input Device: Line In (if not choose Analog Mix, failing that What You Hear but that needs all WIndows sounds to be turned off or these will be captured too.)
2 Stereo Input Channels
Software Playthrough (in Preferences) – off
Stuart


From: egdirdle2013@... 
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 10:48 PM
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [peel] Audacity frustrations

  
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 ?