Audacity Forum

... I've just bought this emu 0202 for my laptop (Vista) to improve sound quality. So far, no problem, ... Audacity, using the emu. My aim is to record "what you hear". I've red about the worries around Vista and the possible ...

... playthrough OFF. Are you on Vista or Windows 7? That has an equivalent ... makes me think you are recording "what U hear" or "stereo mix" instead of the input ...

... while you record. This still lets you choose to listen to what you are recording or not, according to the "Software Playthrough" setting. Windows Vista and 7 (but not XP and earlier) do have what amounts to a software playthrough option in "Sound" in the Windows Control Panel. It will almost certainly ...

... WHAT I DID In Audacity I changed the Recording Device in Edit -> Preferences -> Audio/IO to "Stereo mix (Realtek High Defini" (sic) In Windows (Vista, by the way) In the Sound settings – accessible through the Control Panel or by right-clicking the volume icon – I did 2 things. 1. In the Recording ...

windows vista home premium, 64 - bit, lap top built in mike. but the thing is i will hear the chirping when nothing is happening ie: not playing, recording, etc....and idk how to find out what sound card i need. sorry. not technical with computers....

thanks for help with first problem though!

... It is present whenever I'm recording to the computer. The noise level seems constant whether the turntable is running or not. I'm using Windows Vista SP2, 64 bit; Audacity 1.3.12. The turntable RCA plugs are connected to the "input" of a Behringer USB preamp, and the turntable ground is also ...

... to Windows 7 64 bit from something like XP or Vista? I'm guessing the latter? I'm also guessing you mean you can no longer record "what you hear" now that you have Windows 7? It's common. It's more ...

Most Windows XP systems provided What-U-Hear as a normal thing and everybody could make it work. Windows Vista many times hid What-U-Hear and you had to go looking for it -- but you could still do it. Many ...

... said, I've been faced with the same problem as all the Win7 or perhaps Vista users; there's no "Stereo Mix" option in 1.3.x Beta. I've searched ... it here: To enable the "Stereo Mix" ("Wave Out Mix", "Record What You Hear") option in Windows 7/Vista 1. Go to Control Panel, under "View by" ...

I'm having a problem on Vista with a Realtek sound card using Audacity 1.3.12 which I never had with 1.2. Occasionally the input has a lot of disturbances which sound a little like "Scratchy.mp3" (see "Scratchy sound on recordings" post) ...