Recording straight from audio output

[boot]

Ok I'll try that

Thanks for your time steve and alatham

[kozikowski]

You know the Mic-In on a sound card only has one channel, right? Are you sure you're plugged into the Line-In?

Plug a special cable into the Line-In of your sound card, launch Audacity pretty much like you have been and click once inside the red recording meters. This will make them active without actually starting a live recording.

This is the magic cable:

One end is Ring, Tip, Sleeve Like the top illustration here:

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnecto ... ctors.html

The other end should be male RCAs. (No pictures. Sorry.)

Touch first the tip of one RCA with your bare finger and then the other. First one red Audacity meter will light up and then the other. This is an old trick to quickly figure out where an audio signal is being damaged or lost.

Koz

[steve]

You know the Mic-In on a sound card only has one channel, right? Are you sure you're plugged into the Line-In?

I think that you have mis-read the post. The problem is the other way round: works ok using loop back, but only one channel when recording "Stereo Mix".