crazyness, speaker is now my mic
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 1:03 am
desktop windows Vista, audacity 2.0.3 usb mic
i put my computer in sleep mode for a few days at a time as i was working on my book. i did the sleep mode on and off for months.
the other day i decided to make a audio file.
after i opened the program i clicked on to record. no sound and a yellow boarder was around the new file. i rechecked everything. it says the mic is working yet it would not input a sound to bounce in the metering window.
so i said i'll record from my webcam and selected it. WOW, a perfect wave. zero flatness until i spoke.
i never seen that even with my U1 mic.
then i said wait a second. i just downloaded snagit and setup the audio by moving their slider to use a mic. then i closed it down. but when i remembered this i opened it and the mic worked ok in the test video.
now it gets wierd. i thought how could my web mic work WHEN I DIDNT turn it on! so i covered it with a dish towel and the recorded sound was not muffled.
so i thought it was using my turned off usb mic somehow. so i unpluged it to check it. and hit record and perfect sound. i just looked at my $10 speaker that is 25+ years old and said it cant be. but i covered it with a towel and it recorded a muffled file.
now i found on the web that a speak can be a mic. but i'm getting a prefect file which needs no noise editing.
ok, what is going on?
i'm thinking i should get my harddrive cloned and send it to somebody. this is crazy!
time getting close for this old guy to hit he sack.
i am in the US on eastern standard time.
i just hope when i turn it on in the morning and it repeats. because if it does i need to remove a lot of Word docs to send this hard drive to somebody trust worthy. i have a lot of photo editing software on it.
dam i hope i'm not a fool. but i will post tomorrow if it repeats itself.
i put my computer in sleep mode for a few days at a time as i was working on my book. i did the sleep mode on and off for months.
the other day i decided to make a audio file.
after i opened the program i clicked on to record. no sound and a yellow boarder was around the new file. i rechecked everything. it says the mic is working yet it would not input a sound to bounce in the metering window.
so i said i'll record from my webcam and selected it. WOW, a perfect wave. zero flatness until i spoke.
i never seen that even with my U1 mic.
then i said wait a second. i just downloaded snagit and setup the audio by moving their slider to use a mic. then i closed it down. but when i remembered this i opened it and the mic worked ok in the test video.
now it gets wierd. i thought how could my web mic work WHEN I DIDNT turn it on! so i covered it with a dish towel and the recorded sound was not muffled.
so i thought it was using my turned off usb mic somehow. so i unpluged it to check it. and hit record and perfect sound. i just looked at my $10 speaker that is 25+ years old and said it cant be. but i covered it with a towel and it recorded a muffled file.
now i found on the web that a speak can be a mic. but i'm getting a prefect file which needs no noise editing.
ok, what is going on?
i'm thinking i should get my harddrive cloned and send it to somebody. this is crazy!
time getting close for this old guy to hit he sack.
i am in the US on eastern standard time.
i just hope when i turn it on in the morning and it repeats. because if it does i need to remove a lot of Word docs to send this hard drive to somebody trust worthy. i have a lot of photo editing software on it.
dam i hope i'm not a fool. but i will post tomorrow if it repeats itself.
