Recording Internal Audio

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misskellili
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Recording Internal Audio

Post by misskellili » Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:46 pm

Hi there,

OS: Windows 7
version: 2.0.6
installer: zip

I have been spending some time figuring out how to do record internal audio, but so far have been unable to do so. I followed the tutorial (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html) Set up my volume settings to enable stereomix (both on my computer and on audacity) but when I play the track (which I can't download) and press "record," it does not pick up the sound (the waveform is static and when I do a test recording, it is silent).

However, when I "monitor" the audio, it IS picking up sound.

Would appreciate any advice/help!

Sincerely,

Kelly

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Re: Recording Internal Audio

Post by kozikowski » Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:14 pm

However, when I "monitor" the audio, it IS picking up sound.
So when you click on the red recording meters or right-click on them and "Start Monitoring," they jump in time to the show?

Koz

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Re: Recording Internal Audio

Post by misskellili » Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:41 pm

Yes to the latter, I when I select "Start Monitoring" the red bars jump along with the audio

~Kelly

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Re: Recording Internal Audio

Post by kozikowski » Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:33 pm

Continue fact-finding:

When you make a ten second recording, do you get a recording duration of ten seconds (as an example).

Are you on a laptop and can you make a successful, straight recording of the laptop built-in microphone?

What's your history with Audacity if any? First time user?

Koz

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Re: Recording Internal Audio

Post by Gale Andrews » Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:56 pm

Have you tried the Windows WASAPI method mentioned in the Tutorial?

Gale
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