Voice recording is silent [HELP]

[kozikowski]

See if Audacity works set for mono recording instead of stereo.

Koz

[MkMuffi]

I tried it on a mono recording, still didn't work. I then decided to close and uninstall Audacity, shut down, power on, then re-install Audacity, which also still didn't work. It is strange because just a few days ago I was able to successfully record using my microphone with Audacity (Until I updated to the newest version, maybe?)
I can still record device audio from the speakers using Windows WASAPI, that works fine.
Windows detects an input to my microphone, it detects that Audacity is using my microphone, yet nothing records.

[kozikowski]

Quick note. If you record, say for two minutes, do you get a two minute recording?

Are you trying to do this at one of the two standard sampling rates? 44100 or 48000 (lower left panel)?

yet nothing records.

I'm out.

You have achieved the troubleshooting gold standard. There's nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't work.

Audacity acts very strangely if its recording bitstream or service becomes damaged. Freezing or halting cursor and stuttering motion. You don't have any of those problems. Audacity acts exactly and perfectly normal. I think it is recording the wrong thing, but I don't see how.

Koz

[kozikowski]

Google lenovo 20h2 laptop microphone recording settings

https://support.lenovo.com/eg/en/solutions/HT104054

There's pages of this stuff.

I know this is silly, but is the Audacity recording volume slider turned up?

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Koz

[steve]

Very puzzling

Perhaps Audacity's "audio device info" will give some hint.
"Help menu > Diagnostics > Audio Device Info..."
(See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/hel ... stics.html)

Please save the results as a text file and attach the file to your reply (see: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936)

[kozikowski]

One more from the ancient writings.

Set it up normally like you would expect it to work. Run the recording slider all the way down, pause, and then run it all the way up. Did it follow you OK or did it jump around, and did it change anything—did recording start working?

Koz

[jademan]

If you are still having issues, do Transport > Rescan Audio Devices, then make sure the Audacity sample rate (lower left-hand corner) is the same as the Windows sample rate, see Direct access to the Control Panel Sound settings, specifically under the Advanced tab.

[MkMuffi]

Koz:
"If you record, say for two minutes, do you get a two minute recording?"
Yes, I do.

"Are you trying to do this at one of the two standard sampling rates? 44100 or 48000 (lower left panel)?"
Yes, my current sampling rate is 44100.

"Is the Audacity recording volume slider turned up?"
Yes, turned up to full.

"Google lenovo 20h2 laptop microphone recording settings"
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I'll look more into it to try to figure out if anything's wrong there.

"Set it up normally like you would expect it to work... Did it follow you OK or did it jump around, and did it change anything?..."
I tried it, nothing happened. The recording was still a thin, flat line.

Steve:
"Audio Device Info/Please save the results as a text file and attach the file to your reply"
Not sure if it'd be of any help, but I added it as an attachment.

Jademan:
I checked, and my Windows Sample rate turned out to be 48000 Hz, while I had mine in Audacity set to 44100. So of course, I turned it up to 48000 Hz, and tried recording. Did it work? Still... nope.

I'm still very confused as to what the problem is, and I'll try to look more into the standard microphone recording settings for Lenovo 20h2, if that could help.

[MkMuffi]

(Not sure what happened to the attachment I uploaded in the last post... here's my Audio Device Info)

[steve]

In Windows, I have the setting "Allow desktop apps to access your microphone" turned on.

Go back to that screen and scroll down.
Is Audacity listed as a Desktop app, as shown below.

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