Audacity Forum

So you're saying that you have selected "Stereo Mix" on the new computer and there's a lot of noise mixed in with the recording? Yes, the noise is being produced even if I'm not recording anything. I can't hear it just sitting in front of my computer, but I plug in headphones or record so...

Newer computers tend not to have Stereo Mix at all. Chances are you're really recording one of your unused or unconnected inputs which will just give you electronic noise. Audacity is a complete slave to what the computer is doing. What did you set your Windows Control Panel to? Koz I have stereo m...

I'm running audacity 1.3.13 on a new Asus laptop. On my old computer, with Audacity 1.2 I could capture the audio my computer was produced by selected stereo mix and pressing the record button, which was easy enough. On my new computer, audacity is recording a white noise/static that I can't hear ou...