[peel] Audacity frustrations

[Karl Eldridge]

Very kind of you Stuart- I will check this out tomorrow. However , in the meantime all is well - each time I started the tape the wave readings slipped down a panel so I thought nothing was going in when really the readings were there but due to so many stops and starts they were about 5 screens down if you know what I mean.



On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 11:26 PM, Stuart Brooks <stuartb@...> wrote:
 
  
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 ?