I have an ASUS desktop and playback of sound but I cannot use the record jack I use Audacity for sound editing and everything works fine but when I try to record, I get
Why is that do you think?
Thanks.
Win 7 Ultimate
Audacity 2.0.3
.exe installer
Audacity is calling for sound specifications that your sound device can’t deliver. Are you using the pink Mic-In in the side of your machine?
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCLaptopSound.jpg
Are you using it for an actual microphone like this…
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/computerAnalogMicrophone.jpg
You should try 44100, 16-bit, Mono for a single microphone. Some computers configure the microphone to appear on both sides of a stereo show, so you can try Stereo in that setting.
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Quality
Also:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_errors.html#sound_device
Koz
Thanks for the reply. My question was really about Audacity. Shouldn’t I be able to record, regardless of everything else. The Realtek Audio driver is up-to date.
As you can see Audacity senses no input device although it is of course there. Speakers/output are sensed and presented correctly and all devices are enabled.
They are not “fully” enabled - They are not available because (according to Windows) nothing is plugged in, so Windows is not making them available to Audacity.
So you’re saying the physical connection between record jack and sound card (or rather lack thereof) is what’s the problem? Sounds absolutely plausible to me.
What input do you want to record from? Yourself speaking into an internal microphone?
Do you have an external microphone that comes with a cable, or a cable that is connected to a pre-amplified signal such as from a record player?
Or are you trying to record sounds that the computer is playing?
In your picture of Windows, try right-clicking over empty space and if “Show Disabled Devices” is not checked (not ticked), click it to add a check mark then post another image.
Gale
Also right-click over each device and choose “Enable” if you see that - I think those devices could be disabled as well as not plugged in.
Gale
“What input do you want to record from? Yourself speaking into an internal microphone?”
That or what’s playing right then through the speakers.
"Do you have an external microphone that comes with a cable, or a cable that is connected to a pre-amplified signal such as from a record player? "
Headset type thing - no amplification
“Or are you trying to record sounds that the computer is playing?”
See above, yeah sure
“In your picture of Windows, try right-clicking over empty space and if “Show Disabled Devices” is not checked (not ticked), click it to add a check mark then post another image.”
This I don’t get. My picture of Windows? Like I think I said before all recording devices are enabled
Nope, enabled. That’s the thing that makes it look like it’s a case of a connector not being connected
To record sounds that are playing through the computer you need to select “Stereo Mix” as the recording input. However, many Windows computers do not have that option. Your computer does not have that option, as is evident here:
As you don’t have that option you will need to use some other method. See here for some suggestions:
To record from a microphone, you need to have a microphone plugged in.
To record from the “Line in”, you need to have something plugged into the line input.
OK, Steve.
If I understand you right I can record via Microphone or Line In as things stand now, but not through Audacity?
Thanks for replying:
Göran
You should be able to record with Audacity via Microphone or Line-in if you plug something in (such as a microphone into the microphone socket).
You can not record “Stereo Mix” because your sound card does not have that option.
Frankly it is very rare for Audacity to show an empty input box when inputs are enabled but simply not connected. That’s why I had to ask if you had explicitly enabled them by right-click in Windows. The behaviour may be determined by your sound card drivers, and it’s always possible the drivers are not correct, but let’s address that later if we need to.
2.0.3 is obsolete, so please update to 2.0.4: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows .
Then when you start 2.0.4 it will rescan your devices. If you had enabled them in Windows after starting Audacity, Audacity would not see that change unless you had then done Transport > Rescan Audio Devices.
If your sound device doesn’t have stereo mix, the answer is simple in 2.0.4. Open Device Toolbar, then in the “Audio Host” box, choose “Windows WASAPI”. In the third “Input Device” box, choose the “(loopback)” option for the same device that you have selected in the second “Output Device” box.
This is all explained in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html .
Gale
“Frankly it is very rare for Audacity to show an empty input box when inputs are enabled but simply not connected. That’s why I had to ask if you had explicitly enabled them by right-click in Windows. The behaviour may be determined by your sound card drivers, and it’s always possible the drivers are not correct, but let’s address that later if we need to.”
I installed the latest driver(Realtek) yesterday to make sure that wasn’t it.
“2.0.3 is obsolete, so please update to 2.0.4: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows”
Will do.
“Then when you start 2.0.4 it will rescan your devices. If you had enabled them in Windows after starting Audacity, Audacity would not see that change unless you had then done Transport > Rescan Audio Devices.”
Will do that too.
"If your sound device doesn’t have stereo mix, the answer is simple in 2.0.4. Open Device Toolbar, then in the “Audio Host” box, choose “Windows WASAPI”. In the third “Input Device” box, choose the “(loopback)” option for the same device that you have selected in the second “Output Device” box.
"This is all explained in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html.
Right-o. I’ll report back asap thanks For now Gale.
Göran
It depends where you got the driver from. If you got it from the motherboard or computer manufacturer and it’s for your version of Windows, then it should be correct.
If you got it from a Realtek site, then it’s a generic Realtek driver and it’s unlikely be perfectly matched with your motherboard.
Gale