no sound while recording

[sarzosam]

I set my settings as Microsoft sound mapper output for playback and Microsfot sound mapper input for recording, then I "save file as" and then hit the record button and then the play button on my Tape2USB (which is connected to the USB port of my laptop) and I hear nothing!! HELP!!!!!!

[waxcylinder]

When you plug in a USB device like this your computer hands over control of all sound services to the USB device - both input and output. Since your USB tape deck doesn't have a set of speakers, you then don't get any sound from the computer (not even the normal computer sounds).

All you need to do is to get your O/S and Audacity to retarget the sound output onto your computer's on-board soundcard. In Windows use Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio > Sound Playback - in Audacity use Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O > Playback Device - you may need to close and restart Audacity for the change to take effect.

Many folks fall into this bear-trap when they start out with USB/Audacity - I certainly did !

WC

[kungreet]

I'm new to all this so apologies. Appreciate it if anyone can help me, I've got the same problem but instead of not being able to hear i can't record. Im using a Mbox-2 mini. What should i set the playback device as? and under the sounds and audio devices > audio there isn't something called sound playback for me. I can also add that under preferenses in audacity it doesn't find my mbox2-mini.

Any help is appreciated.