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What settings do you have in "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" What other options are available? I use MME, and turtle beach headset for both playback and recording. Channel is set to stereo. Further options are: Interface - MME Windows Direct Sound Playback - Microsoft Sound mapper - output Spea...

Thanks for your continued support on this Gale. Having removed skype and performing the test again, I can confirm it is not skype causing the issue. While not technically very reliable, I performed the test with my old windows 98 PC (same headset and audacity being the only identical pieces of hardw...

Thanks for getting back to me. I think we are crossing our wires a bit. I am not trying to record skype, the alternatives suggested are designed purely for that. My intent is to just record my voice input to the pc, without any of the pc noises being recorded. My skype problem applies to ANYTHING th...

RIght I think I figured this out (sort of). Its not skype that is the problem. This is the test that I performed: Load random youtube video/mp3 Mute mic, check that audacity has the headset as the input in devices Hit record in audacity When doing this, it faintly records the youtube/mp3 track, just...

My friend and I are trying to record a podcast where I record JUST my voice and he records JUST his. We are using skype to chat and both using audacity to record, the end result being that I merge the two audio tracks together to make the "conversation". ...While looking at the audacity recording m...

Everything except for the headset is either disabled or unavailable.

Thanks for getting back. We don't have it set to pan at all, everything is dead centre. Even if I set to record with it panned left, its still recording him very quietly in the background. While looking at the audacity recording monitor, with NO recording device plugged in I can record my friend (fa...

Hello, My friend and I are trying to record a podcast where I record JUST my voice and he records JUST his. We are using skype to chat and both using audacity to record, the end result being that I merge the two audio tracks together to make the "conversation". This works fine, except I have noticed...