Make a test recording to refine levels if necessary. It may be best to check that the Audacity playback slider and the website or player slider are turned up by about the same amount, rather than having one output slider way down and the other way up. Thus to achieve the correct recording level you should use both the recording and playback level sliders on Mixer Toolbar:Īnd probably the volume control on the website or player software as well. See Meter Toolbars for a detailed description of what the meter display shows.īoth the output level of the audio you are recording and the level it is being recorded at will determine the achieved input level of the recording. You can always amplify the recorded signal later if necessary. The aim is to adjust levels so that the long colored bars in Meter Toolbar do not exceed about -9.0 to \xe2\x80\x936.0 dB (or 0.5 if the meters are set to linear rather than dB). Left-click in the microphone icon or right-click in the Recording Meter and select " Start Monitoring" to turn monitoring on.To turn monitoring on and off in the Recording Meter Toolbar: Step 3: Monitor and set initial sound levelsīefore recording for real, try to set sound levels by playing similar material from your intended source and monitoring it in Audacity, so that the recording level will be neither too soft nor so loud as to risk clipping. You can also use the Recording section of Audacity Preferences:
To turn off Software Playthrough, choose Transport > Transport Options > Software Playthrough (on/off) to conveniently toggle playthrough off and on as required. If playthrough is on, the audio interface will try to play what it is recording then re-record it, creating an increasingly loud series of echoes that may damage your equipment. Software Playthrough must usually be turned off when recording computer playback. Click the link to the tutorial for your operating system: This section of the tutorial shows how to find a suitable audio interface input for recording computer playback, with workarounds if such an input is not available. Sometimes, older audio interface drivers can be found on the website of the audio interface, sound card or motherboard manufacturer that still allow recording of computer playback. Many manufacturers are making it increasingly difficult to record streaming audio by deliberately removing or hiding this functionality due to copyright concerns. This is often the hardest part of the overall task, being dependent on your computer operating system and audio interface. Step 1: Set up devices to capture computer playback
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