Spotty Sound Issues and recording issues

[JV1987]

I recently bought a GuitarLink USB cable to hook up my Guitar to the computer and record using Audacity. Now, the USB cable runs from the right output of my Line 6 Pod into the computer, and the inputs are obviously from my guitar going into the input slot in the Pod.

Audacity seems to be giving me spotty issues regarding sound and general recording. For one, the computer sometimes recognizes the guitar sound as shown by the meters on the top right of the screen, but I hear no sound during playback. When I do hear sound during playback, it's rare and requires me to mess around with the Audio I/O preferences continuously because one audio option never seems to be the default. Also, I am sometimes able to record, then when I try and use another track, the meters don't show any activity and it seems as if one time it records, and the other time it does nothing.

I reinstalled Audacity and that didn't seem to do the trick... any potential solution to this?

I apologize in advance if this question has already been answered.

Thanks for the support!

-Jeff

[kozikowski]

This generic problem is pretty common. Whenever Windows sees a USB Sound Device plugged in, it will many times try to assign all sound services to it instead of just recording. So it's trying to send your music performance back out to the guitar instead of the computer speakers. I own a sound device where that would be perfectly correct, the USB device has both speakers and microphone, but you don't.

This process will seem to be serious magic because it happens every time you plug in your USB device. This gives you problems like ...."I just set this [email protected]#$ thing and now it's broken again."

You should be able to set the pathways of each service in the Windows Control Panels. And stop unplugging the USB adapter.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz