So i figured out the problem.
I’m using headphones plugged into my rear speakers on both the headphone and microphone jack. My computer also has an internal speaker, so there are 2 “High Definition Audio Devices” that show up in the audacity device list. There are also 2 of those that show up in my sound settings. Both of them are currently enabled.
Turns out, disabling the one i wasn’t using (i found this out by opening the sound mixer, and switching to the audio device that had no audio channels opened on it, clicking on the speaker, and disabling it from there) perfectly fixed the problem for me. I have no clue why this ended up fixing it, but i’m glad it did.
The audio it records does seam a little bit quiet, but amplifying it hopefully won’t be too big of a problem!
(is there a way to mark a reply as the solution?)