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Go Mic not acknowledged
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:23 am
by katycopsey
I have a Samason GoMic which I want to use with Audacity to record interviews in the field.Unfortumately the program is having problems recognizing the mic which plugs in via a usb port. The program can allocate the mic as input but when I try to record it gives an error. I am running the program on a Presario F700 laptop with Vista Home edition.
Could someone suggest how to get around this please?
Thank you
Re: Go Mic not acknowledged
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:48 am
by Gale Andrews
katycopsey wrote:I have a Samason GoMic which I want to use with Audacity to record interviews in the field.Unfortumately the program is having problems recognizing the mic which plugs in via a usb port. The program can allocate the mic as input but when I try to record it gives an error. I am running the program on a Presario F700 laptop with Vista Home edition.
Is the computer recognising the mic?
Go through all the "Detecting USB and Firewire Devices" steps
here.
Gale
Re: Go Mic not acknowledged
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:11 pm
by katycopsey
Thank you for the link. Unfortunately it still didn't pick up the microphone. I noticed though the desktop had no problem. The desktop is 1.26 and the laptop is the beta 1.3. I have removed the Beta version and downloaded the prior one which now seems to record.
I plan on staying with the stable version for a while.
Re: Go Mic not acknowledged
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:54 am
by Gale Andrews
katycopsey wrote:Thank you for the link. Unfortunately it still didn't pick up the microphone. I noticed though the desktop had no problem. The desktop is 1.26 and the laptop is the beta 1.3. I have removed the Beta version and downloaded the prior one which now seems to record.
I plan on staying with the stable version for a while.
is this Beta version the current 1.3.12? There are a few reports that 1.3.11 or later can't see USB input where 1.2 can (Windows XP/Vista and OS X 10.5+).
You can install 1.2.6 on the laptop (Vista) if it is installed into a different directory to the 1.3 install. There is a chance 1.2.6 might crash when you Stop after recording, but it would prove if Vista or Audacity is the problem on that machine.
Gale
Re: Go Mic not acknowledged
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:09 pm
by katycopsey
It was the latest version available, and I uninstalled, reinstalled last week, so that was probalby the 1.3.12
I uninstalled and put the 1.26 on the laptop and it finds the mic without a problem. I am obviously concerned about the crash aspect, and maybe will try to have both on the laptop and only use the early version when I have to use the usb mic.