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Well I guess I’m not so sure now Gale, it appeared to me that if I did not mute the unused tracks during recording (overdubbing or adding a new take) that Audacity would run very slow or not at all. Is that what happens for you, or does Audacity not draw the flat line on the tracks that don’t record? Perhaps some might expect muting the track being recorded to make it record silence (flat line). With standard two channel recording devices that I’ve ever seen, muted tracks record regardless, even if append recording into two separate mono tracks and muting one of the tracks. If your Solo button preference in Tracks Preferences is set to “Multi-Track”, you might be able to save time by using Tracks > Mute All Tracks then just press Solo on the tracks that you need (Solo over-rides Mute). I am not totally clear if you mean that you are manually muting each new track that you don’t want to record. I’ve also noticed that my file size (.aup files) goes down if I mute, during recording, unwanted tracks. This way even though 16 tracks (in the case of the Tascam 16x08) appear you can mute them and only record the new track that you want to add to your project. It would be ideal if something could be adjusted or fixed so that one could get a range of volume when recording with the iO4, because people need to project into the microphones to a degree that impacts their ability to naturally speak freely.īottom line is that it works, and I am managing, but if the volume issue were resolved, it would be the ideal recording device for podcasters on the go like me.įrom what I’ve seen if you hit mute “within Audacity on the mixer screen” the unused recording tracks that appear when you hit “record”, that it does not record the noise floor. To get a decent response, though, just about every setting at every step of the way has to be maxed out.
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If you lower any gain or input volume settings, you can reduce the recording volume. Cranking up the input volume in Ubuntu’s sound settings or within Audacity has little or no apparent effect. To record a person speaking at a standard voice level, neither whispering nor shouting, I have to crank the gain on the iO4 for each mike to maximum. The second, and in my mind a significant caveat, is that the input volume is quiet. All my experience is that hotplugging simply does not work. The first is that the iO4 must be plugged in before you boot your computer. When the iO4 is plugged in, it shows up as an option in the Audacity interface, so one can select it and start recording without needing to make any changes in Ubuntu’s sound settings. With the XLR mike inputs and direct USB connection, one gets a reasonably clean sound. My goal is to record podcasts with my laptop and have the option of using up to 4 different microphones, and this enables that. At least, how it works with Audacity on Ubuntu 12.10. I was advised over on another thread to come to this one and provide some input about how the Alesis iO4 works with Audacity.