Recording Blocked

[Claire]

It's been a while since I did some recording (narration) using Audacity, but I wrote down the procedure at the time, and when I tried to record this morning, I followed that -- without success. I have "Microphone" selected , but when I click on the record button all I get on the audio track is a running flat line. My TUBE MP has the green light on and everything is solidly plugged in.

EDIT: Am using a Sound Blaster Audigy card.

One other thing does seem odd. I *think* I remember, when "Microphone" was selected that automatically there was new audio track on the screen. Either that, or I *think* I might have used File/New to bring up a new track. (I don't ever recall having to start as I did today with Project/New Audio Track.) But if I click on File/New now, a second Audacity comes up!

EDIT: A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded a new LAME file for Audacity and deleted the old one. Could that have messed things up for me?

Claire

[kozikowski]

The Tube MP is a full-on microphone preamp and should be plugged into the Line-In of your sound card, not the Mic-In. If it's not labeled in English, It's the fan icon with the arrow pointing in rather than out.

Koz

[Claire]

<The Tube MP is a full-on microphone preamp and should be plugged into the Line-In of your sound card, not the Mic-In. If it's not labeled in English, It's the fan icon with the arrow pointing in rather than out.>

Ahh. In the time between my last recording session and this one, my son moved the tower, unplugging and replugging everything. I'm back in business now. Blessings on thee.

Claire