brucek probably hit the nail on the head when he mentioned connections and soundcard settings as the major cause of novice's problems with REW.
These "minor difficulties" were certainly my own achilles heel in trying to use the software without reading any of the the help files first.
Reading the instructions was never my first priority. It was always a last resort if I couldn't work out how to use something from scratch with my own very fuzzy logic and intuition.
REW certainly brought out more "senior moments" than I might otherwise have wished.
I must fall back on my standard defense that "Those who made no mistakes probably never did anything.
