Audacity Forum

Ok. I'm using 1.3, My Digitech GNX3000 multi-effects pedal is installed. I tried to record using Line-In. It didn't do. No waves or anything. So I downloaded another program trying to use it. I went to line-in on the other program and it showed the gnx3000. I record and it showed the waves going and everything. But when i play nothing comes out of the speaker. In fact when i plug in my gnx3000 pedal no sound comes out of my computer at all. Any help? Please help!

Isn't this a USB device? In which case:-

USB devices have a habit of hijacking the entire sound – output as well as input – and they don’t tend to have loudspeakers (hence “no sound”).

What you need to do is to direct the Windows sound output to your PC's soundcard Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices>Audio>Sound Playback - and make this setting to the PC soundcard.

You may also need to ensure that Audacity sends it output to the PC soundcard Edit>Preferences>Audio>Playback - and set this also to your PC soundcard. You may need to stop and restart Audacity for this setting to take effect.

WC

Ok. I've got sound when its plugged in now. But when I record still nothing. Any ideas?

Recordings on Windows machines have to filter through the Windows Control Panel. Plus, if that all goes OK, Audacity Preferences > Audio I/O.

There is also the completely erroneous assumption that listening to the show and recording it are the same thing. Well no, especially on a computer, where they can be completely different sound pathways.

You can seriously muddy the waters by introducing another sound program. It's going to need its own pathways in addition to all the others so far.

So if you can "see" the show (not just the device) on any of the sound programs, then you can make a successful recording. Do the Audacity red record meters jump when you perform? Doesn't matter if you can hear it or not. That's later.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg

Once you can capture a sound performance -- as seen on the meters and blue waves, then you can listen to it by another trip into the Windows Control Panels and Audacity Preferences > Audio I/O.

All this gets impossibly complex if you like to record internet audio. Some settings for success there contradict settings in other panels.

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

Koz

When I record there are no sound waves at all.