Hi,
My microphone does not record microphone sound in Audacity - ie I get a flat line, even though I notice the green bars of the microphone volume go up in the top right volume bar in Audacity (see this screen capture: http://users.telenet.be/myprojects/tests/audacity-capture.jpg)
Can anyone help please ?
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Computer Configuration:
Audacity 2.1.0
Windows 10 Home Edition (up to date), with the following sound controllers in the Device Manager: -
Hauppauge Win TV HVR-5525 (that’s an internal TV tunercard with which I watch TV on my computer)
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NVIDIA High Definition Audio
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Realtek High Definition Audio
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Steinberg UR12
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Microphone:
Behringer ECM 8000 connected to a Steinberg UR12 pre-amplifier, which in turn is connected to my computer via USB.
I already installed the latest driver for UR12, and the microphone does visually register the sound in SpectrumLab (DL4YHF's Audio Spectrum Analyser), but it doesn’t record it in Audacity.
Spectrum Lab only renders a visual spectrum of sound, not an audible one (see this example of my singing a scale do re mi fa sol la to do ti la sol fa mi re do http://users.telenet.be/myprojects/tests/120.JPG). So the mic does pick up sound in SpectrumLab and therefor works. It just doesn’t record it in Audacity.
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Headphones:
Logitech headphone via the rear jack of my computer. Realtek recognises it. When I connect it, gives me a choice between “headphone” and speaker", and regardless of which option I take, it is listed as “speaker”. The headphones work, I hear the sound properly with other applications. -
In the Control Panel > Hardware and Sounds >
-------- Playback, listed are:
- Line (Steinberg UR12) - Disabled (enabling it makes no difference)
- NVIDIA Output - not plugged in
- NVIDIA Output - not plugged in
- Speakers Realtek High Definition Audio - set as default device
-------- Recording, listed are:
- Line Steinberg UR12 set as default device
- Microphone Realtek High Definition Audio - not plugged in
- Line in - Realtek High Definition Audio - not plugged in
- Sterio Mix - Realtek High Deinition Audio - disabled (enabling it makes no difference)
Actions taken so far, without success:
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Driver updates of UR12 (ver 1.10.0) and of Realtek
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Setting up headphones as headphone or speakers in rear jack - in both cases listed as “speaker” in the Playback Devices, no effect in Audacity.
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Changing the Windows settings (Control Panel > Hardware and Sounds > Sounds) of Playback and Recording, flagged and unflagged Exclusive Mode and Enhancements in their Advanced settings etc., each time either restarting Audacity or Transport > Rescan Audio Devices after a change
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Audacity is set to microphone Line Steinberg UR12,stereo (I tried mono too) and as speaker Realtek High Definition Audio.
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Question:
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get the microphone to record in Audacity? Many Thanks!