Variation of YouTube Speaker Output Recording

[TranceLover]

Ok. So I read the little tutorial about recording from Youtube using speaker output. My problem is, the speakers on my laptop suck and whenever I record through them the recording/sound quality is low and comes out rattly, crackly, popping, and shaky. But when I plug in the high quality stereo headphones I have, it produces clean, deep, rich sound. But when I plug them in and hit record, all I get is silence, because my computer's built in microphone is external and next to the speakers.

Is there any way I can directly record the sound input that is coming through my headphones, rather than through my low quality speakers.

Thanks.

[kozikowski]

To record the high quality service internal to the computer, you need to be recording "Mix-Out" or "What-U-Hear." You are recording the built-in microphone and yes, that's usually terrible.

There's no other variation. You need to set the Windows Control Panel for this service. If you're on a Win7 or Vista machine, there's a possibility that the service just doesn't exist and you either need external hardware cables and adapters, or money-based software like Total Recorder.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

This has nothing to do with Audacity. Audacity is a complete slave to what the computer supplies to it.

Koz