I recently purchased an Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB turntable to convert my LPs to digital. I just installed the Audacity 2.0.1 software on my Dell computer (running Windows 7 Home premium) today. I hooked the turntable to my computer through the USB cable they provided. I then followed the instructions in the manual from AT on how to change sound settings. When I tried it out, the visual monitors in Audacity show sound input and even output levels, but I get no sound through my computer. I even tried exporting what I was supposedly recording to an mp3 file, I got no sound out of that either. My computer speakers play all other sounds (internet video, cds, dvds) just fine, so I am a bit confused. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
If you have blue waves and can see the sound meters bouncing, you are getting a recording, whether or not you can hear it.
Sometimes, Windows can freak out when you plug in a USB Sound Device and will mistakenly assume sound should go both directions to the device instead of recording from the device and sending speaker sound out to the speakers.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#playthrough
You can tell Audacity where to send the speaker sound by using the Device Toolbar.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html
Koz