Thanks for your reply.
I checked out the link but I can get till here: “Right-click over Microphone (or whatever device you are recording from) and choose Properties”
I have no " Enhancements tab where you can disable all or selected “Sound Effects” - if needs be, also look in the Levels or Custom tabs "
I have Windows 8.1.
Now that you told me, the Noise Suppression thing sounds just like my problem: " If the recording is fading out after a few seconds, look for a “Noise Suppression” setting you can turn off in the Recording side of the sound device settings. " That’s the problem I think.
Is there any video or walkthrough I could watch? I can’t find the tabs for those settings to change.
So you did right-click over the speaker icon by the system clock, then choose “Recording Devices”? Then you right-clicked over the Logitech then choose “Properties”? What tabs are there? It doesn’t surprise me if there is no “Enhancements” tab - that usually appears for the internal or external mic of the built-in sound device, but you have a USB device.
I assume from the waveform that it is a recording problem and not a playback problem.
Are you recording from the correct input in Device Toolbar? Don’t record from stereo mix or the built-in mic.
On the “Advanced” tab of the Logitech recording properties, have you tried enabling both “Exclusive Mode” boxes, then restarting Audacity and choosing “Windows DirectSound” host in Device Toolbar?
I know how to get to the control panel and how to access to the audio settings.
The problem is that I don’t have any tabs about enhanchements, thus I can’t find any Noise Suppression option to disable.
I’ve googled everything but I couldn’t come up with a solution.
Hi Gale,
I tried them now, sorry I missed them before.
Both “Exclusive Modes” boxes were already enabled. I tried with the disabled, but nothing changed.
In the device tool bar I have set my USB webcam as recording device.
I tried MME and DirectSound as well. No change.
I’ve tried WASAPI as well, but the recording doesn’t even start.
Thanks for your help!
ps: yes, it’s a recording issue, not playback. the waveform shows it.
Skype is not running.
The WASAPI host is currently only for recording computer playback.
But as a diagnostic experiment, see what happens if you send the web cam input to your speakers and record the speakers. Right-click over the speaker icon by the system clock, then choose “Recording Devices”. Right-click over the Logitech then choose “Properties”. Then click the “Listen” tab (assuming it exists. Enable “Listen to this device” and choose your normal computer audio device for playback. OK once.
Now click the “Communications” tab of Windows Sound. Under “When Windows detects communications activity:”, choose “Do nothing”. That should not have any effect when you are recording just the mic, but it may help when you are recording computer playback. Click OK.
Restart Audacity then choose WASAPI host. For playback device, choose the device you chose in “Listen”. For recording device, choose the “(Loopback)” input for the device you chose in “Listen”. Start singing or speaking then press Record.
that was kind of complicated, i don’t have a “loopback” option in recording, so I chose the same device i set in “listen”.
I think I did it right, but the sound recorded is basically a sort of “clicking noise” that sounds more like a robot trying to sing under water than real music.
Do you want a sample?
You will have a “(loopback)” choice for the playback device you are using in the Recording Device section of Audacity’s Device Toolbar.
It does not sound to me like you did it right. Did it sound like an underwater robot when you heard yourself a few fractions of a second later?
Suppose you set the Logitch mic as default recording device (right-click over it in Windows Sound) then record using Windows Sound Recorder (click the Windows icon bottom left then type “Sound Recorder” without the quotes). Is there the same problem?