Audiocity

[anotheoldgit]

My operating system is Microsoft XP and my browser is Firefox.

I have just downloaded Audiocity, but the instructions tell me to Start Audio City and choose View->Float Mixer Toolbar. In the drop-down menu on Audiocity's mixer tool bar, choose 'Wave Out' or 'Stereo Mix' as the input source.

The problem I am experiencing is that I am not given these two choices, I have the choice of 'Line in' or 'Microphone'.

Can anyone please tell me why this is?

[mormess]

Do you mean Audacity?

I haven't used it but use ProTools a lot. The description you give is confusing. Wave Out and Stereo Mix would be output options. Line in and Microphone are input options.

Sounds like the instructions are warped!

[mormess]

http://n2.nabble.com/Help!-td268181.html

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=M ixer_Toolbar_Issues

Quite a bit to work from there but those two links may shed some light. It seems like an issue that has been seen before.

Good luck!

[anotheoldgit]

Thanks very much mormess, it is all so confusing, that I might just forget it.

But thanks again for all the trouble you have gone to.

[Disco Fever]

I use Audacity and I tried recording using the USB side of a record deck ive just bought but the quality was atrocious so ive used the other output of the deck, phono, and gone straight into the 'mic' input of my computer and now all is fine. Ive set the input to 'stereo mix' and the sound is fine but I do have to turn down the mic input to 0.1 otherwise the sound is distorted...

[wideboy]

Alternative to Audacity (nicer interface):-

FreeAudiEditor here with tutorials:-
http://www.free-audio-editor.com/

(there are also Audacity tutorials if you 'Google').

Another freebie is wavosaur but I haven't used it (it may be more advanced):-

http://www.wavosaur.com/

[anotheoldgit]

Disco Fever

Thanks for your answer but that is the problem I am having.

I cannot select Stereo Mix or Wave Out, I am not given those two options, the two options I am given are 'Line in' or 'Microphone'.

[anotheoldgit]

wideboy

Thanks for those links, but if possible I would like to use Audacity. But I may try them if all else fails.

Any idea how I can select Stereo Mix?

[wideboy]

Probably have to do it from your system settings first. Double-click the volume icon in the bottom right of your screen (or go to Control Panel and choose Sounds and Audio Devices etc.). Go to Options and then Properties. Choose your Input device for your sound card under Mixer devices. See if Stereo Mix is available there and then choose it.

In Audacity, you don't need to View Float Mixer, you can dock it and have it there permanently. In the Edit ... Preferences options, choose your Sound Card under the Audi/IO Recording device. Don't know if Stereo Mixer will appear but I would hope that it might work as the default.

[anotheoldgit]

Thanks for your time once again wideboy

I double clicked the volume icon, could only get Mixer device and this was set to Sigma Tec Audio.

In the edit preferences options under Audio l/0 in playback device it gave two options Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output and Sigma Tel Audio.

Under Recording Device
Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input and Sigma Tel audio

Under Channels 1 - (mono) 2 - (Stereo)

I'm lost completely.

[wideboy]

After double-clicking the volume icon, when you see mixer device and your sigma tec audio, click to the right of it and see if you can choose sigma tec audio input instead of output (hopefully you have two options!).

Then, in Audacity, under your recording device, choose sigma tec audio input.