Audacity Forum

I appreciate your help. I know it's hard to tell what's going on when you can't grab the mouse yourself. I checked the Control Panel the first day, the settings look right (attached sound.jpg): sound.JPG I also tried both the Realtek and Microsoft Sound Mapper settings on the Edit/Preferences/Audio ...

Thanks Steve(thefiddle?).

I did check that panel, and the Options/Properties/Record. Everything looks as it should, Audacity just doesn't register any input from the mic. It's a stumper...

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I checked the Recording Control properties window in the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties, it's not muted. Hopefully that's what you mean by the windows mixer.

I know these things are usually user-error, but so far no luck figuring out what that could have been.

I appreciate the suggestions.

I only have one input (microphone) on my laptop's sound card, so I don't think that's the issue. When it stopped working (literally from 1 minute to the next), I tried all the input options on the Input Selector on the Mixer Toolbar, and then tried the Audio I/O tab in preferences. Nothing has solve...

Hi, System Info: I am recording with a mic that has a TRS connector. I checked the Edit/Preferences/Audio I/O setting, and it points to my sound card (Realtek AC70), and my sound card has the latest driver. Audacity is v1.2.6, OS is XP Home Edition. Problem: I was recording yesterday, and things wer...