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A friend of mine lent me an adapter that changes the jack from mono to stereo, unfortunately the results were the same...

At this point rather my "sound card" suxs, or my mic is flawed

I'm using a laptop: asus k53s.

The only mic I could find it's near the webcam, so on top of the screen.

Thanks Robert2 for pointing that out!

No it's not an usb mic.

I made some photos:
http://imgur.com/0MSdBHS,zbjFz3R,yvQl0IK#1 logitech
http://imgur.com/0MSdBHS,zbjFz3R,yvQl0IK#2 akg

connectors
http://imgur.com/0MSdBHS,zbjFz3R,yvQl0IK#0

As you can see the akg connector is different from the logitech one, could this be the culprit?

Through Headphones sir, I know it doesn't sound right, but this is what is happening.

If I plug my cheap 9 dollar logitech mic everything is ok (i.e. the green bars are not moving with system audio). I think it could be a problem of my mic^^.

Thank you again for your reply. This is what I get: http://imgur.com/Te4cWH4 As you can see from the pic I cannot set the external microphone as the default input device as there is only one microphone...I think the realtek hd audio manager just switch between laptop built in mic and external one wh...

Thank you for your asnwer. I've tried all the settings combinations in the device toolbar and everyone of them record system audio. Anyway they are: MME speakers (realtek high definiton audio)/microsoft sound mapper -output microphone (realtek high definition audio)/microsoft sound mapper - input Th...

Hello I'm running windows 7, Audacity 2.0.5 and I've used the .exe installer. I'm using an old AKG d 50 s microfone (it is not an usb mic) and for reasons I cannot understand it is recording my system audio, so if I try to make a videogame commentary audacity records both my voice and my game sound ...