Rescan Audio isn't recognizing my USB converter for cassette

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I have my cassette deck RCA outputs left/right plugged into a Dazzle DVC-80 “Digital Video Creator” (I am not using the Video input on it). Then I have the DVC-80 output USB plugged into my laptop (my laptop has no line-in mic, unfortunately, but I want to record stereo anyway). When I have all this plugged in together, I can see that the Dazzle is receiving power through the USB 2.0 port, and I know that the tape deck is definitely sending out audio (I’m listening to it through the cassette deck’s headphone jack), but I CANNOT get Audacity to recognize the DVC-80 as the input select. I have used Rescan Audio Devices many times to no avail. Audacity is clearly recording, because it is recording my voice with the laptop’s built-in camera mic.

Then I realized that I probably need the driver for the Dazzle. Is that what is missing in this chain? I tried downloading that, but I’m having some issues :frowning:

I have Audacity 2.1.0 running on Windows 8.1.

Thanks,
JMatt57

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I am not using the Video input on it

You may not be using it, but it’s there in the bitstream anyway. Audacity does not recognize video devices.

I use the Behringer UCA202 pure audio converter.

Dig in the Dazzle and see if there is a provision to turn off the video and use it as a pure audio device.

Koz

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Koz,
Thanks for the quick reply! Okay, I’ll look to see if the Dazzle has the option to switch off the video and do audio conversion only. The Dazzle belongs to a friend of mine and he doesn’t think that Pinnacle/Dazzle supports the DVC-80 in Win 8.1, so I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to get to a software control panel to change anything on the Dazzle.

I do know of the Behringer unit, and I may have to put that on my shopping list :slight_smile:

Thanks!
JMatt57

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If you do have a tower you can get a conversion cable like this to use the blue Stereo Line-In on the sound card from Dazzle headphones out. Many laptops are missing the blue connection and the pink Mic-In doesn’t make a good substitute.

This presupposes your soundcard works perfectly. Of my three, only two work really well and the third is noisy.

Koz

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Well it does, but only if they have a separate audio stream with no video in it, like some USB web cam’s do.

Gale