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  1. Member ahhaa's Avatar
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    It's been a really long time since I needed to record sound thru the mic input miniplug jack; last I saw, you could open a mixer-like console in Windows that would select Source, set Levels, etc.

    I'd used Audacity before without problems, but this time it couldn't find/set an input.
    After fooling with it a while, I went to the Sound icon in Control Panel.
    It only opened a supersimple set of choices, with the only one under Recording being Microphone - Realtek HD Audio, with any options greyed out and no way to add another.

    Going to the Realtek Audio Manager panel, I found it only has a Speakers tab, and a greyed out non-functioning Analog Mic In button.

    I am not sure where the Realtek software came from; this Toshiba has Dragon Naturally Speaking and Logitech QuickCam installed as well.
    I'd rather not get into a dependencies problem over this.

    Any advice on where to start, or what not to do?
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    Seems to work OK on my laptop. It picks up the internal webcam microphone by default in Audacity. I couldn't quickly find a external microphone. And I notice the mic jack is also the headphone jack. I'm guessing you can't use both functions at once.
    I'm also guessing that the 'Analog' input is greyed out as I don't have an external mic plugged in.

    A screenshot of my Realtek Audio Manager:
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  3. Hi ,

    In the task bar ( at the right-bottom ) , click on the icon "level speaker" .
    This will open a dialog box .
    Click on 'properties' .
    This will open a dialog box .
    in 'peripheral...' choose 'Realtek HD Audio Input' .
    Select the 3 elments , and OK .

    Regards .
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    Hi Guys! Sorry to take so long getting back here...

    Red: The Realtek Audio Manager on my machine doesn't have that main Microphone tab, only a Speakers tab, so I don't see any of those settings.
    It does have an analog mic button- one of those greyed out round buttons on the right of the panel.
    (To be clearer, I wanted the Mixer because I have a Line input from an old Philips cassette deck as a source.)

    aazerty: Left-clicking the speaker icon gives me an output volume control, with an output mixer for Flash, Windows Sounds, & Firefox.
    Right-clicking it gives me Open Volume, Playback Devices, Sounds, and Recording Devices.
    Under Recording Devices, there is only one allowed option- a default Microphone with no apparent way to add Line In.
    Highlighting the microphone option took me a while to suss out, this activates the Properties button, which opens a secondary screen with another Properties button, dealing with DC Offset, Level, Boost, Sample Rate... but all are Mic spec'd, nothing dealing with Line Levels or getting the signal to Audacity.
    I do appreciate both your help in getting me this far, but I don't want to pop any chips on this laptop, so am concerned with just 'experimenting' especially with peaky music.

    Why has audio gotten so back-burnered, anyway?
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