Audacity Forum

Go into the Windows Sounds Control Panel and check that your microphone is enabled and the recording level turned up: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... es#vistacp

What options do you have in the Device Toolbar ?

That's going to be tough.
Could you upload a short audio sample (just a few seconds, preferably in WAV format).

Is Windows 8 supposed to support "Stereo Mix"?
Do you have Windows 8 drivers for your sound card?

The current version of Audacity is 2.0.2 and it is available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

Try turning up the microphone volume: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/mixer_toolbar.html

Is there any other sound or is it just the bell ding and silence?

Is this Ubuntu 12.10 Yes How did you install "Gnome Classic Desktop" With Synaptic. (I can' get on with the "Software Centre" so I have Synaptic installed). There does seem to be a short delay before the menu appears - it is noticeable that the rest of the interface is drawn fir...

Translated into our current ideas, 25f might like this (v26c): http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=6338 I don't personally like the use of non-standard notation and terminology in Audacity, but if we were to go with "% of original" as a concession to novice users then what ...

Saving as WAV (or AIFF) will be virtually lossless. It's encoding to MP3 (or other lossy format) that does the damage.

The menus are present on 32 bit Ubuntu with both Audacity 2.0.2 and SVN head (tested with Gnome Classic Desktop)