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I use Audacity to do my podcast. Works great every time. Then, I go to record last night, I hit record, and it pops up, "Error opening recording device, error code 9996, invalid device.
What the heck? I've done every tutorial on freaking youtube.
Nothing.....what is wrong?????????????????????????????????????

dougiefresh wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:16 pm

I use Audacity to do my podcast. Works great every time. Then, I go to record last night, I hit record, and it pops up, "Error opening recording device, error code 9996, invalid device.
What the heck? I've done every tutorial on freaking youtube.
Nothing.....what is wrong?????????????????????????????????????

You've not given much information to work with. Perhaps your USB mic has come unplugged.

I'm getting the same problem. I recall seeing something on some forum that fixed it on my old pc but that's long since lost in memory. I'm using the same headset and I've gone through all my settings on Audacity in my old computer and set it the same way on my current one but that hasn't worked. I've unplugged and plugged my headset back in a bunch of times and that hasn't worked. I've tried going through my headset settings. It's set to 7.1 and everything.

Subway_Hobo wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:00 am

It's set to 7.1 and everything.

Try setting it to 2 channels stereo 44100.