Audacity input level fixed 100%

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2023-08-17 at 11:23 +0200, Frank Vanoni wrote:
> Does anyone have a solution?

Hi,

this is very tricky for averaged users used to desktop sound
environments such as pulseaudio. However, even when using plain ALSA or
Jack or... it's not that easy. In audio engineering you usually adjust
the microphone level in the analog domain, e.g. by a pad switch on the
microphone and/or an analog mixer and this mixer is then connected to
the sound card. It's very unusual to adjust microphone input levels by
the computer. Even by the analog domain you can not always attenuate the
signal to a wanted level. You might need to change the position of the
microphone or even use a different microphone.

What microphone are you using? If the microphone is not USB, but
connected by analog IOs, what is the analog chain? Is it directly
connected to a sound card, if so, what sound card?

FWIW it might not help with your issue, but https://tenacityaudio.org/
is forked from Audacity and soon or later might remove some of the
Audacity oddities. But the issue you are experiencing is an engineering
issue that has less (or nothing) to do with Audacity.

Regards,
Ralf