Audacity Forum

Today I was trying to record my voice onto audacity and i started playing around with it...bad choice
I have a Sony Vaio and it runs on Vista, it has a built in mic but i started to use a USB mic. i thought i would just disable the built in one since i didn't need it anymore. Once i did, the USB mic stopped working and whenever i tried recording something onto audacity, it wouldn't let me and instead it said
"Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate."
I thought it was just because i disabled my other mic, so i enabled the built in one again and tried recording my voice again with my usb mic plugged in and my built in one enabled.
The same message came up again. I also tried changing the project sample rate but that didn't seem to help either.
I also went to AUDIO I/O but in the recording device section there are no devices, even though in my control panel i know for sure that there are 2 devices enabled.
what should i do?

Try resetting your Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Mono. Restart Audacity. Mono should be the setting for both your built-in microphone and the USB microphone.

Make darn sure your microphone is selected in the Windows Setup Panels. See if it works.

Koz

oh thank you thank you thank you XD
IT WORKS!