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... selected as the input (sometimes called "Mix" or "What U Hear"). There is more information here: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer If you are using Vista, you may also want to look here: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Vista_OS ...

... If you make it through all the available panels and you still have noise, you may have a sound card going into the toilet. Notes: --If you're on Vista, some of the rules change. --The desperation move is to shut everything down, pull out and reseat the sound card (This is when you tell us you're ...

... channels of you mic input using an analogue mixer. I think this is too complicated for now.) How does this help? What OS do you have - XP or Vista?

... both questions is to record the speaker output as the sound is playing. Unfortunately, this is not always as trivial as it first appears to be. This ... Toolbar selector (to right of the microphone symbol), but on Windows Vista it's always done in the Recording Device dropdown at Edit > Preferences ...

... Toolbar selector (to right of the microphone symbol), but on Windows Vista it's always done in the Recording Device dropdown at Edit > Preferences ... to select a Recording Source called "Stereo Mix", "What U Hear", "Mix", "Loopback", "Sum" or something ...

<<Even if you are using headphones, using a splitter to send part of the signal back to the "Line in" should not be much of a problem since the "line in" will usually have a fairly high input impedance (several thousand ohms) compared with the headphones (usually in the range of ...

Steve, your explanation is very good and very nice. Many of your explanations are very good ! <<Also, to record "What U Hear" with a USB sound card will usually require using an audio cable to connect the output to the input>> I think this can be done to the onboard card, ...

... first post by heirpin. only Mic and Line-in in the Recording devices in Vista and that's with the 'Show Disabled devices' ticked! So I assume (although ... avoid the very cheap ones. The exception to this is for laptops, where USB devices are often the best option. The other option for laptops ...

You are using Windows? (XP? Vista?) You have probably got your soundcard configured to record "Stereo Mix" (sometimes just called "Mix" or "What U Hear"). This will record all the sounds that are playing through the output of your ...

... / Entertainment / Volume Control. Gale, <Where is the "What U Hear : Microphone" - in Audacity's Mixer Toolbar Selector? Or are you on Vista, where you select your input device in Audio I/O Preferences > Recording Device? "What ...