Audacity not recording stereo mix drivers#

We cannot see your computer, we need you to tell us what audio device you are trying to listen on.

Right-click in the Audio Device Info window, and choose “Select All”. If WASAPI loopback does not record either, please post the information from Help > Audio Device Info… top right of the Audacity menu bar.

If stereo mix does not work for you, use the instructions there to record from Windows WASAPI loopback instead. Open Windows Sound Missing features - Audacity Support and on the Recording tab, right-click over Stereo Mix, choose “Properties” then look at the “Levels” tab.Īlso please read the article I suggested: Tutorial - Recording Computer Playback on Windows - Audacity Manual.

Audacity not recording stereo mix drivers#

Perhaps if you are playing the audio on your motherboard audio device such as “speakers”, the drivers are broken and the Audacity input volume slider does not raise the input level in Windows. If not, right-click anywhere and select (click) Show Disabled Devices from the context menu and then Enable Stereo Mix. Navigate again in Sound options in Control panel and normally you should see the Stereo Mix at recording devices. If you are listening on a USB headset, stereo mix will not record that. After drivers installation, restart your PC. If you can barely hear the audio, you will barely record it.Īs I said, it depends what device you are playing the audio on. What should I adjust.Īs I said, it depends whether you can hear the audio loud on YouTube. Tracks > Mix > Mix and Render to New Track - which adds the mixed track to the project. But on my old laptop the sound is loud and clear. Within an Audacity project, you can physically mix selected multiple selected tracks into a single mono or stereo track using either of two explicit mix commands : Tracks > Mix > Mix and Render - which replaces the original track (s) with the mixed track. Other than the windows and the audacity version, everything else is the same. It’s the same settings as I had in my old laptop which ran windows 7. The input is stereo mix and my recording device default is the stereo mix. The volume on the youtube is full and on my windows speakers is full. Yes I was recording some music cue from YouTube.