Really Bad Recording Problem

[OggOrbisRecords]

ok did you go into preferences and turn off the setting to make it do that before you even bothered with things outside of the computer? there is a setting to have it drop down like that that you can turn off and on

[Lifestream]

Your answer lifestream, was a few posts previously in this thread:

Hi,

What recording device is displayed in Audacity? I had your described problem until I figured that the recording source should be either "Line in" or "Microphone". I had it set to "Wave Out Mix" which, as the title suggests, is the combined sounds in the sound card. Oops.

Ok, I've done all of that already. It's still mxing all the sounds in the soundcard.

[Lifestream]

ok did you go into preferences and turn off the setting to make it do that before you even bothered with things outside of the computer? there is a setting to have it drop down like that that you can turn off and on

In Audacity, yes. Te recording device is set to Line in/Mic in.

Yeah, even if I have my speakers and mic off; headphones unplugged - if I record anything in ANY sound recorder, it will record all the sounds that are playing on my computer.

[kozikowski]

Welcome to the mysteries of the Windows Control Panels.

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz