Weird Sound Output

[MetalMilitia]

Yeah, it records perfectly.

[steve]

It records what perfectly? Microphone recording? Stereo Mix recording? (I'm not asking you to change anything - I'm just gathering information that may indicate what the problem is.)

What are the settings in Audacity 1.2.6 in "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O"?

In Audacity 1.3.12 in "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" are the settings still:
Host: Windows DirectSound.
Playback Device: Primary Sound Driver
Recording: Primary Sound Capture Driver
Channel: 2 (stereo)

Have we checked that the 1.3.12 version really is 1.3.12? It will tell you in "Help menu > About Audacity".

[MetalMilitia]

I recorded through the Line-In, to a mono track.

In Audacity 1.2.6 the Playback device is "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output", recording device is "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output"

In 1.3.12, the settings are currently as you listed, and yes it says it is "1.3.12-beta".

[steve]

In Audacity 1.2.6 the Playback device is "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output", recording device is "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output"

I presume you mean " recording device is "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input" ?
Is "Channels" set to "1 (mono)" or "2 (stereo)"?

In Audacity 1.3.12
"Edit menu > Preferences > Devices"

Set the following settings:

Host: MME
Playback Device: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output
Recording Device: Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input

Set "Channels" to the same as it is in Audacity 1.2.6

[MetalMilitia]

Sorry it took a while for my reply, I've been a bit busy lately.

I set 1.3.12 to those settings and it still makes that sound.

[steve]

What I'd like you to do is to make a short test recording with Audacity 1.2.6 and a test recording of exactly the same thing with Audacity 1.3.12.
Please ensure that the recording contains both some actual sound and some "silence".
Ensure that you use the same sample rate, the same export format, in fact try to make both recordings as good and as similar to each other as you can.
Please do not amplify or process the recordings in any way. I'd like to hear the difference between the raw recordings.
Then post a couple of seconds from Audacity 1.2.6 and the same part from the 1.3.12 recoding.

[MetalMilitia]

Okay, so I'm still having this problem. I uninstalled and then deleted ALL Audacity system files on my computer. I reinstalled 1.3, still doesn't work.

I set the settings to what you had suggested again, and recorded a wave file. It should say "This is me talking. This is my voice." then some silence, and then "Testing."

It's clearly not. I'll reinstall 1.2.6 soon and get a recording from there as well.

[steve]

I'll wait for the 1.2. recording before commenting further, but in the mean time, do you know what a ZIP file is and how to extract the contents of a ZIP file?