I have just acquired Audacity 2.04 on a HP Pavilion G6 running Windows 7 Home Premium (Starter Pack 1).
I used the previous version of Audacity on an aged Acer - which, because it had a “line in” socket to take the feed from my pre-amp, worked perfectly.
The HP only has the usual External mic (and headphones) socket - and I’m also trying the pre-amp feed through a USB adaptor. Audacity recognises both of these as they are offered as choices on the Input Device list.
But neither of them will record (well, I just get a dead flat line through the External mic - and a thin bar of “noise” through the USB port).
I know I am delivering a signal through the feed from the pre-amp because it worked on the Acer.
I’ve been into FAQs and following a suggestion on a recent similar thread, I have ensured that the software playthrough setting is ‘on’.
The only input device choice that will work is either the internal mic or the Microsoft Sound Mapper (which I suspect is the same thing) - but all this does is pick up the room speakers attached to the amplifier, in other words, just the surrounding sound.
I’m not knowledgeable in this field and intuitively wandering through Audacity’s features and settings is getting me nowhere.
I’m sure it’s stupidly simple - but - any ideas please?
I’m sure it’s stupidly simple
Hardly that.
I have just acquired Audacity 2.04
You should take the earliest possible opportunity to upgrade to 2.0.5.
because it had a “line in” socket to take the feed from my pre-amp, worked perfectly.
Exactly. And you should keep that right in front of your mind.
I’m also trying the pre-amp feed through a USB adaptor.
Which is exactly what? Part numbers. If you got a USB sound adapter like the ICUSBAUDIO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829128002
Then you substituted Mic-In and Headphones for Mic-In and Headphones. It’s the same thing.
I use a Behringer UCA202 for stereo Line-In on machines that don’t naturally have it. Other people make adapters like this and Behringer also makes a UCA222 and a UFO202 that has a phono pre-amplifier built-in.
Koz
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< Exactly. And you should keep that right in front of your mind.>
Thank you for being kind enough to send me a prompt response.
Computers I understand - sound systems, pre-amps and hi-fi stuff, I don’t. But your comments suggest to me that the signal coming from my pre-amp is not formatted (if that’s the right word) to look like a signal coming from an external mic, so Audacity doesn’t recognise it as such.
If so, then my choices would seem to be
a) Convert the signal from the pre-amp so that it DOES resemble an external mic - or -
b) Get a gizmo that takes the pre-amp signal and presents it to Audacity through a USB port that is pretending to be a line-in. (which is what I’m presuming your suggestion of the UCA2020 and UFO202 devices are doing?)
Am I getting warm?
Thanks
David H