Audacity Forum

Well, you were certainly right. I checked out that website and, guided by its advice, dived into my Control Panel, whereupon I found "Sounds and Audio Devices." Within that, in the Audio tab, was an option to adjust the volume for the AK5370 mic. It was down near the bottom. I slid it up to the top ...

There wasn't in this. And the microphone level slider is grayed out, even when I plug in a standard mic into the mic jack, let alone the USB mic. (And I still need to test it, when I'm back home again, with my surround speaker set and see if it still won't record at all with that plugged in. For all...

I have tried recording with an ordinary mic plugged into the back of my computer, in the HD Audio's in port. And the funny thing is, it only reaches about halfway up the bar too. When I did a spectrum analysis, it peaked at -14 decibels on the spectrum, and if I selected and clicked "Amplify" the de...

What's the "usual" scale? i.e. the scale at which a normal microphone recording should fill most of the space between the lines? I'm trying to figure out whether I'm actually recording faintly or it just looks like it the way I have Audacity set.

I'll give it a shot.

Just wondering: is there any way that Audacity might simply not be showing the true recording levels in its graphic display, that it might be "zoomed out" or something? Are there any options I should check to make sure?

I tried that, but it ended up being at about the same level still, even when I went into the RealTek settings panel and turned off echo suppression and noise reduction.

I have a Logitech AK5370 USB mic, which I use for all my vocal apps. It works fine with most of them. However, with Audacity, when I had my surround speakers plugged in (I use a motherboard with integrated RealTek HD sound) nothing I said into the microphone would get recorded by Audacity no matter ...