I love my Scarlett 2i2, has really made my recordings top notch, or at least much closer to my ideal. I mostly use it with live now, but I used to use audacity, and sometimes still do. I recently discovered the quality difference between 48 and 96khz is really really apparent, so much so, that anything I recorded at the lower rate seems awful. If I recall audacity defaults to a lower quality I believe.
Something to look at.
Something to look at.