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Hey everyone,

Sorry if this has been covered before. I'm trying to use Audacity to record some music from my friend's Myspace page. I'm on Vista, and I cannot use the "Wave Out Mix," so instead I'm taking a 3.5mm cable to run out of my headphone slot straight to my microphone slot. The instrumentals sound great, but when my friend's vocals come in, it sounds way too distorted. What can I do to alleviate this issue?

Edit: I adjusted the volume output coming from my speakers/headphones, and it adjusted the vocal distortion.

<<<I'm taking a 3.5mm cable to run out of my headphone slot straight to my microphone slot.>>>

That only works on Macs or very large PCs with multi-port sound cards. Microphone-In on a sound card is very sensitive and easily overloaded by the signal at the headset output. Some laptop computers can switch a single input between High Level Stereo Line-In and Low Level Mono Mic-In. Some can't. If you can't, then you can't do what you're trying to do without some damage.

Many people use a USB sound device for this. Give up on the computer internal services.

Koz

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Koz