White Noise Being Produced

[jasonvtaz]

I'm running audacity 1.3.13 on a new Asus laptop. On my old computer, with Audacity 1.2 I could capture the audio my computer was produced by selected stereo mix and pressing the record button, which was easy enough. On my new computer, audacity is recording a white noise/static that I can't hear out of my speakers as it records, but can be heard when I play it back. Anyone know a way I can get rid of this noise?

[kozikowski]

Newer computers tend not to have Stereo Mix at all. Chances are you're really recording one of your unused or unconnected inputs which will just give you electronic noise.

Audacity is a complete slave to what the computer is doing. What did you set your Windows Control Panel to?

Koz

[steve]

So you're saying that you have selected "Stereo Mix" on the new computer and there's a lot of noise mixed in with the recording?

[jasonvtaz]

Newer computers tend not to have Stereo Mix at all. Chances are you're really recording one of your unused or unconnected inputs which will just give you electronic noise.

Audacity is a complete slave to what the computer is doing. What did you set your Windows Control Panel to?

Koz

I have stereo mix turned on, I'm not sure what you mean by setting control panel to. I found that when I plug in headphones I can hear the static coming through the headphones.

[jasonvtaz]

So you're saying that you have selected "Stereo Mix" on the new computer and there's a lot of noise mixed in with the recording?

Yes, the noise is being produced even if I'm not recording anything. I can't hear it just sitting in front of my computer, but I plug in headphones or record something in audacity it can be heard. Now I'm having other speaker issues, but I'm not sure they're related.

[steve]

Mute the microphone and line input.