Can edit and listen to music but not record?

[VenusAndMars]

I have an ASUS desktop and playback of sound but I cannot use the record jack I use Audacity for sound editing and everything works fine but when I try to record, I get



Why is that do you think?
Thanks.

Win 7 Ultimate
Audacity 2.0.3
.exe installer

[kozikowski]

Audacity is calling for sound specifications that your sound device can't deliver. Are you using the pink Mic-In in the side of your machine?

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ ... pSound.jpg

Are you using it for an actual microphone like this..

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/comp ... ophone.jpg

You should try 44100, 16-bit, Mono for a single microphone. Some computers configure the microphone to appear on both sides of a stereo show, so you can try Stereo in that setting.

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Quality

Also:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... und_device

Koz

[VenusAndMars]

Thanks for the reply. My question was really about Audacity. Shouldn't I be able to record, regardless of everything else. The Realtek Audio driver is up-to date.



As you can see Audacity senses no input device although it is of course there. Speakers/output are sensed and presented correctly and all devices are enabled.

[steve]

Speakers/output are sensed and presented correctly and all devices are enabled.

They are not "fully" enabled - They are not available because (according to Windows) nothing is plugged in, so Windows is not making them available to Audacity.

[VenusAndMars]

Speakers/output are sensed and presented correctly and all devices are enabled.

They are not "fully" enabled - They are not available because (according to Windows) nothing is plugged in, so Windows is not making them available to Audacity.

So you're saying the physical connection between record jack and sound card (or rather lack thereof) is what's the problem? Sounds absolutely plausible to me.

[Gale Andrews]

What input do you want to record from? Yourself speaking into an internal microphone?

Do you have an external microphone that comes with a cable, or a cable that is connected to a pre-amplified signal such as from a record player?

Or are you trying to record sounds that the computer is playing?

In your picture of Windows, try right-clicking over empty space and if "Show Disabled Devices" is not checked (not ticked), click it to add a check mark then post another image.



Gale

[Gale Andrews]

In your picture of Windows, try right-clicking over empty space and if "Show Disabled Devices" is not checked (not ticked), click it to add a check mark then post another image.

Also right-click over each device and choose "Enable" if you see that - I think those devices could be disabled as well as not plugged in.


Gale

[VenusAndMars]

"What input do you want to record from? Yourself speaking into an internal microphone?"

That or what's playing right then through the speakers.

"Do you have an external microphone that comes with a cable, or a cable that is connected to a pre-amplified signal such as from a record player? "

Headset type thing - no amplification

"Or are you trying to record sounds that the computer is playing?"

See above, yeah sure

"In your picture of Windows, try right-clicking over empty space and if "Show Disabled Devices" is not checked (not ticked), click it to add a check mark then post another image."

This I don't get. My picture of Windows? Like I think I said before all recording devices are enabled

[VenusAndMars]

In your picture of Windows, try right-clicking over empty space and if "Show Disabled Devices" is not checked (not ticked), click it to add a check mark then post another image.

Also right-click over each device and choose "Enable" if you see that - I think those devices could be disabled as well as not plugged in.
Gale

Nope, enabled. That's the thing that makes it look like it's a case of a connector not being connected

[steve]

"Or are you trying to record sounds that the computer is playing?"

See above, yeah sure

To record sounds that are playing through the computer you need to select "Stereo Mix" as the recording input. However, many Windows computers do not have that option. Your computer does not have that option, as is evident here:


As you don't have that option you will need to use some other method. See here for some suggestions:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... _Issues#cp

To record from a microphone, you need to have a microphone plugged in.

To record from the "Line in", you need to have something plugged into the line input.