Audacity Forum

Transcriber,

Working with your assumption, that the mic didn't work, I went through the Win troubleshooting routine, everything seemed good.

As a last attempt, I switched USB ports on the computer. Eureka! It works.

Thanks for your help & inspiration.

Allan

Newbie here. Using a USB mic (blue snowball) with a dell laptop. During recording, nothing registers visually, and no sound during playback. Will Audacity work with a USB mic? Windows XP hardware settings look OK, Audacity correctly IDs mic in Recording Device. It seems I'm a click away, just don't ...