Audacity Forum

I have recently downloaded Audacity onto my Vista notebook. It seemed to instal OK and opened up fine but I cannot record anything. I have checked the FAQ and various articles, but cant find a solution.

I have also checked control panel / sound / manage audio devices and see that under the "recording" tab I have a microphone and WaveOut mix devices shown, but nothing else. I have enabled everything in turn but the only recording I get is a high pitched buzz when the microphone is enabled and used.

I can record using the windows sound recorder so thats ok.

I have previously used Audacity on another PC using XP and had no problems at all.

Vista seems pretty touchy in the driver department, but I'm hoping there is a solution. Any ideas? Thanks.

Radders wrote:Vista seems pretty touchy in the driver department,

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

This is probably the best resource for this kind of problem (which it sounds like you have already seen):
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... sues#Vista
- if the problem still persists, you may need to look for updated drivers (or a better operating system)