Audacity isn't picking up all the sound from the USB cassette player. Why?

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I have these recordings on good Maxell cassette tapes of this old radio show from 20 years ago. The show has a fancy start with lots of different sounds in the backround. When I record the sound onto Audacity, it does not pick up the backround sound. But once the show starts and just the host is speaking, the audio is fine.

I have already checked most of the things that could be wrong through the search function. If this was one of the easy fixes, I would not be making this post. Yes it is set to stereo, yes the Windows sound enhancement is off. I have tried multiple UCB cords. The microphone and speaker gauges on the top right screen of the Audacity interface work and show green bars for all when there’s sound. If anyone wants to mention the easy fixes though, that is fine. I’ll run through them again just to make sure.

It is frustrating because the start of the show is so well produced. And I really want it as part of the recording. It will be going on Youtube later and people will really want to hear the start.

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That DOES sound like “enhancements” which seem to be getting really good at eliminating everything except for spoken voice…

Just a guess but you might have to check the enhancements for whatever input you are using, not just the actual microphone.

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Is there more than one place that enhancements could be effecting it ? I wouldn’t know where to check. I have a Acer Nitro 5 computer with a Maypott USB cassette player

Edit : I found it. In the sound device settings, there was enhancements still on for the mic and the speakers I guess. I only had the one. Im rolling now.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction.