Audacity Forum

It's working now. I checked the Levels tab for Microphone Properties (off Sound > Recording) and the little speaker icon had a red "disabled" indicator. I clicked the icon, the indicator went away, and presto, all's well.

I took the advice given to another person with a similar problem on Vista, and installed the 1.3 Beta. I still am not getting a signal, but there's a nice help file called "Audio Device Info" that seems to log my problem (I'm making bold the pieces of interest): [Note at the bottom it says "Unable t...

Sorry to be such a Luddite on this. I gave up on my Plantronics headset, and bought a Dynex microphone and plugged it into the microphone socket in the back of the PC. I then switched the settings in Control Panel > Manage audio Devices > Sound to Speakers (for Playback) and Microphone (for Recordin...

Neglected to say this is Vista. I read the doc that said on Vista the Mixer Toolbar input source box will be grayed out and to set the Playback and Recording devices in Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O tab. But I've done that, to no avail. Incidentally, when I've got the Record setting right, the prog...

I'm trying to record (in Audacity) with my Plantronics USB headset microphone. When I go to Edit > Preferences, I can select the headset for both Record and Playback. But in the Mixer Toolbar (which has sliders for recording and output volume), the box where you can select input source is empty. And...