Cannot record Stereo/Mono with USB Headset

[diehardtonian]

Unlike before, I use the ESS Maestro thing, with the Blue,Green and Red Port. I use Audacity for recording audios and voice. But now, I bought myself a USB Headset and I'm fining it hard to record Analog Stereo, analog Mono, Mixers, Etc.. The only thing i can record is through microphone. When unlike before, I can record the sound coming through my PC. How the hell am I gonna fix this? When I use the Pink,Green and Blue port, the Analog Stereo, Mixer, Analog Mono, Etc... shows, but now, when I used my USB Headset, it only had 2 options, Microphone and Windows Mixer. Please help me...

[kozikowski]

USB microphones bypass a lot of the Sound Card services since they deliver a digital bitstream not an analog audio signal.

The only way I could get my USB microphone to work was to set Audacity to Mono. I don't think you can live mix that kind of microphone with anything else -- except in post production.

You may have been far better off with your old system. Just because it's an advance in technology, it doesn't always follow that it's good or beneficial.

Koz

[diehardtonian]

^ How can you set it to mono? Is it by the Preferences and then "Audio I/O" ? I did it, I turned the channel into mono but nothing happens... Please... I'm super desperate...

[kozikowski]

I did it on my Mac, but maybe you can pick up a trick or two because I wrote it all down.

USB Microphone
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/USB_Microphone.html

Since you're on a Windows machine, you may also have to deal with the Windows Control Panel.

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

Koz