audacity doesn't pick up sound

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audacity doesn't pick up sound

Post by alexfsu » Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:30 am

audacity reads my sound card (apogee duet), but nothing comes into audacity, it's just a flat line..please help!

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Re: audacity doesn't pick up sound

Post by kozikowski » Thu Nov 18, 2010 7:48 am

Close Audacity.

Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input.

Select your device in the menu -- or Line-In if it's an analog device. Make sure the volume control is up. Make sound. The Mac blue ball sound meter should jump. If it doesn't, you're doing something wrong outside the Mac.

Koz

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