Audacity Forum

Hello, I have just bought the Zennox tape player with Audacity software brand new, plugged it into my brand new PC laptop using Windows Vista via the usb. I play the tape, can see it has recorded something as the sound levels show it has, but when I play it back, theres no sound at all, I have adjusted all the sound volumes to full that I can find in the sound control panel, is there somewhere else I should be looking to adjust sound on a PC??????

Many thanks

I assume this is a USB tape device, right?

If so ...

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 TT 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 (I don't know the MAC equivalent) - in Audacity use Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O > Playback Device - you may need to close and restart Audacity for the change to take effect.

See also this Wiki article: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_turntables

WC

Thats really helpful thank you, il give it a go!

Thanks again

Ive just done it! In Audacity I changed under preferences as you said, the option to PLAYBACK-DEVICES-SPEAKERS CONEXANT HIGH DEFINIT.

Thanks again!