How to record bass. Just bass

First of all, I’m new to this as my username say.
Second, my problem is kinda hard to explain.

Anyways, I want to record my bass with audacity, but I don’t know how to record ONLY bass.

I have real noob equipment. Amp, normal cable (idek know its name), aux cable, laptop and bass.

What I tried was:
Plugged bass to amp then plugged aux cable from amp to laptop microphone jack.

However, when I try to record, it picked up my voice. Meaning my aux cable is not working (its not broken tho). I thought it would only pick up audio from amp, but no.

I managed to make it work a couple days ago by toggling with some settings, but I completely forgot how I did it.

Could anyone help me how to make it only record from amp.

I managed to make it work a couple days ago by toggling with some settings, but I completely forgot how I did it.

You can select the external mic input from the [u]Device Toolbar[/u].

Note that the mic input is not “correct” for a guitar/bass or a line-level signal and you may have issues with tone or your levels. The line-output or headphone output from your amp is about 100 times stronger than a microphone signal. The impedance on the mic input is way too low for a guitar/bass.

If you have a desktop/tower computer with a regular soundcard the blue input is line-level. Or, you can get an [u]Audio Interface[/u] with switchable mic/instrument /line inputs. The Behringer UCG202 is a relatively inexpensive guitar USB interface.

Yeah I know its not the best way to record my bass, but I only have this way atm.

On the device toolbar, I have 3 options for audio host (MME, WIndows DirectSound, & Windows WASAPI).

Here are the recording device that are available in each one of the 3 audio hosts:
MME [Microsoft Sound Mapper -Input, Microphone (High Definition Aud) ← there are two of the Mic High Def–]

Windows DirectSound [Primary Sound Capture Driver, and 2 of the ‘Microphone (High Definition Aud)’

Windows WASAPI [Speakers (High Definition Audio Devices), and 2 of the ‘Microphone (High Definition Aud)’

I tried all of them, but still wouldnt let me record through my aux cable. It still picks up my voice :frowning:

I’m still not sure how I managed to let it record just the audio coming in from the aux cable.