help with no sound coming in to audacity

Apologies if this is already covered.

I appear to have no sound coming in to audacity.

I’m running audacity 3.0.3, on MacBook air with macOS Catalina. I have the XP203 connected via USB. Connected to the XP203 is a Technics 1210 turntable on phono input. For alternative testing I have attached an iPad on the line input. sound is recognising in the XP203 as I am able to hear the sound via the XP203 built-in headphone port.

I have opened up utilities>audio MIDI setup and device is recognising as “XPSound 2”. As per recommendations in the setup guide, I have it set as 2-ch 16-bit integer 44.1kHz (which is allowed up as same settings in audacity system preferences).

I have opened system preferences>sound and the XPSound: external line connector is recognising sound coming in to mac. The input level flickers to show sound.

In audacity, preferences>devices are set to match the XPSound: external line connector. Preferences>recording are set to ‘software play through of input’. Preferences>quality are matched to the 16-bit, 44100Hz.

Output is set to the in-built speakers of the mac.

When I try to start monitoring for input there appears to be nothing coming through, if I try recording it confirms that there is nothing.

I’ve re-read through the help guide over and over but I can’t work out where I am going wrong and why there appears to be no sound recorded.

I’ve attached screen shots to show the setup and result.
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Ensure that the macOS “Privacy settings” allow Audacity to use “the microphone” (audio input devices). See https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/error_opening_sound_device.html#mic

Gosh, why didn’t i think of that. Changed the privacy settings for microphone and sound is now coming through. Thank you Steve.