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: -
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 . -
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?