Hello all! After much of the googles i can’t find a thread anywhere with my exact issue. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
My Setup
Mic: MXL Studio 24 USB
Sound 1: Motherboard built-in soundcard
Sound 2: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, Nvidia audio drivers removed
Speakers: Logitech stereo-mini plug in
Problem
Both the Windows built-in Sound Recorder and Audacity will not playback recorded audio through the built-in soundcard of my motherboard. They BOTH only playback audio through my monitor via DisplayPort.
Settings
In System → Sound the default device is Speakers (desktop speakers connected to built-in mb sound card via stereo mini).
Audacity will not playback audio via the desktop speakers. If i manually switch the output within Audacity to my monitor, it plays back. This works while leaving the system default to the desktop speakers.
But the Windows Sound Recorder, still using the Windows system default, will not play through the speakers. Only when i switch the Windows system default to my monitor will the Sound Recorder output audio.
Spotify and YouTube play fine whichever the default output is…
Musings
Audacity and the Windows Sound Recorder are suffering the same symptom. How is Windows treating recorded audio differently from any other audio source? Why is it forcing recorded audio out of the DisplayPort? And where is that even setup?
I just wanna sing 