Dell Laptop 3520

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Dell Laptop 3520

Post by lwelch39 » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:49 pm

Dell has got a weird sound set-up for sure... Audacity worked great for a few days, then with headphones unplugged a time or two, audacity will no longer work no matter what setting I use. It will record from the internal mike, but that picks up background noise, basically is worthless. Anybody have any ideas? Laptop is setup onWindows 10.
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Re: Dell Laptop 3520

Post by kozikowski » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:19 am

To unscramble that:

You are trying to record from the microphone on your headset. You unplugged the headset and now the only microphone that works is the laptop built-in one.

Audacity checks for new devices when it starts. If you connect something after Audacity is already running, it will be invisible. Restart Audacity, or you can also Transport > Rescan. After you restart, you may need to tell Audacity what to record from with the device toolbar.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/de ... olbar.html

Is your headset visible and can you switch to it?

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Re: Dell Laptop 3520

Post by lwelch39 » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:25 am

Little slow here... record from 'Headset"? - Seems like it would work best to record directly from the sound card or something... My headset does not have a mic - weird thing about Dell is - you have to open panel and tell it to play internal speakers or HS - all other laptops I've had would switch when you plugged-unplugged.
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Re: Dell Laptop 3520

Post by kozikowski » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:27 am

OK, then I missed it completely.

What are you recording?

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Re: Dell Laptop 3520

Post by lwelch39 » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:28 am

Recording from Pandora - dont tell anybody tho....
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Re: Dell Laptop 3520

Post by kozikowski » Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:13 am

You're recording audio playing on the computer.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html

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Re: Dell Laptop 3520

Post by cyrano » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:05 am

lwelch39 wrote:Little slow here... record from 'Headset"? - Seems like it would work best to record directly from the sound card or something... My headset does not have a mic - weird thing about Dell is - you have to open panel and tell it to play internal speakers or HS - all other laptops I've had would switch when you plugged-unplugged.
To paraphrase Frank Zappa "Cheapness at work". They must have left out the "headphone plugged in" detection. Every cent counts when you're in the budget market...
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Re: Dell Laptop 3520

Post by steve » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:52 pm

kozikowski wrote:You're recording audio playing on the computer.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html

Koz
Which links to this page for Windows: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html
where you need to look at the "WASAPI loopback" method.
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