I have a Shure SM7B into a Cloud controller and then into a Focusrite 2i2 and then into my Windows 10 PC. Now I cannot get Windows to acknowledge the Microphone yet Audacity can see it. When I set the record meters to “Start monitoring” I get metering in both the record and the playback monitors. Why is that?
bk
Possibly you are accidentally recording from the computer’s built-in microphone , (which Audacity can “see”).
In Windows 10 a privacy setting was introduced: you have to explicitly permit particular programs (“apps”) access to a microphone.
That could be what is stopping you from connecting the USB audio, see…
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#Why_can.27t_I_record_in_Windows.3F