sound recording

Be certain the Mic is plugged into the Mic input and not the Aux input of the
sound card, Mic OUT PUT is of a much smaller voltage and will not be heard
well thru a standard 150mv line/aux input. It is a voltage mixmatch much like
plugging a magnetic phono output into a standard ceramic phone input without
a preamp.


"campbellbrian2001@yahoo.com" wrote:

> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I'm trying to record my
> acoustic guitar with a PC (Dell, 512mghz, Pentium III, Sony microphone
> plugged into back, Windows XP Pro, Audacity Music Editor). The problem
> is I can't get any playback volume high enough. I've turned all
> possible controls from Audacity and Control Panel to highest settings
> for both recording and playback.
> I still can barely hear my playing. The microphone is about 8" from the
> sound-hole. Any clues!?
> Thanks! Brian
>
>

My prob is that: i have a microphone plugged into my computer and though i
can hear my voice through the speakers, i am unable to capture it on sound
recorder, it is as though it isnt registering with this or any other
programs. My computer is fairly new so should surely have all necessary
drivers? Please help

Rich

RichardIII (RichardIII@discussions.microsoft.com) in
0248C52D-C08E-4415-A455-18F3C763D72E@microsoft.com:

> My prob is that: i have a microphone plugged into my computer and
> though i can hear my voice through the speakers, i am unable to
> capture it on sound recorder, it is as though it isnt registering
> with this or any other programs. My computer is fairly new so should
> surely have all necessary drivers? Please help

I'd say that you likely have all necessary drivers.

Remember that the Sound Recorder supplied with Windows is limited to one
minute of recording.

I couldn't give more specific help than: check that you are recording from
the right source, that this source is not muted, that its signal level is
set sufficiently high. And make sure that you know the name of the file and
its path (directory).

By the way, I would not have loudspeakers on while recording from a
microphone, unless I wanted to capture the feedback.

--
Chris Laarman