On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 6:18 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> 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 > I would suggest you try to turn the volume control on the boombox to the lowest you can go while still being able to pick up the signal on the desktop. -wes
