On 4/16/23 16:05, Dick Steffens wrote:
First I tried the jack on the front that is not the headphone jack. I
think it's a mic in jack, but don't know for sure.
Then I tried the red ring jack on the back. I've switched to the blue
ring jack. Still no results in Audacity.
In Audacity I have four options on the tab with a microphone icon:
HDA Intel PCH: ALC887-VD Analog(hw:1,0)
HDA Intel PCH: ALC887-VD Alt Analog(hw:1,2)
pulse
default
All I get is a graph with a straight line at 0.0, in other words, no
signal recorded.
Sometimes it turns out that having multiple machines is helpful. I moved
my recording process to my other desktop machine. I can record now. I
get an actual graph in Audacity. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like
what I'm used to. Plus, there's a lot of noise.
Instead of the usual graph, I get a very wide blue bar with some
graphing visible on it. As I said, it's noisy, but the graph doesn't
give me a convenient way to sample the noise to remove it. I have the
headphone out of the boom box plugged in to the line-in on the back of
the computer. While it works better than on the front mic jack, it's
still not ideal. I'm not sure if there's some way I can fuss with the
boom box to clean things up, but that will be for another day. When I
finish fussing I will still try to figure out why my primary machine
doesn't connect the way it should.
Anyway, thanks, Rich, for your recommendation about using the line-in. I
should have done that from the beginning, and I know better.
Sigh.
Time for dinner.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
