"Error while opening sound device..."

[drummer.joe]

Hello, I am trying to record useing a Blue Snowball microphone. When I select the microphone and hit record I get an error message reading "Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device setting and the project sample rate."

I was working off of the 1.3.8.0 version until this message kept showing up, so I downloaded the 1.3.12 version in attempt to remedy this and failed.

I believe this to be a software error because I can use the microphone with other programs just fine.

Other than trying a new microphone, what can I do to fix this?

Thank you

[Gale Andrews]

Try setting the project rate bottom left of the Audacity window to the value it was before the problem started. 44100 Hz usually works.

Try recording mono instead of stereo (in the Audacity Devices Preferences).

Try exiting Audacity and resetting the audacity.cfg settings file by opening it in a text editor and removing all the content except "NewPrefsInitialized=1" at the top. See http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Preferences#reset for instructions.

If none of that works please state what version of Windows you are using.




Gale

[drummer.joe]

I have Windows Vista.

I did get my microphone to come through, but only if I: opened audacity, plugged in my mic (USB microphone), and then selected "Windows DirectSound: Primary Sound Capture Driver." This works about 60 percent of the time, and even then it's prone to freezing.