Recording Sound in Audacity on Vista/Windows 7

One of the problems I faced earlier this summer was how do I record a concert that was being broadcast online using my computer with out having to go out to an external recording device or back in to my microphone jack so the sound quality was good. I did some research and found that Audacity would do what I wanted to do. Thats another post. This post is how to fix a problem with using audacity on both Windows Vista and Windows 7.

On windows XP you change the input setting to your sound card in Audacity and you’re ready to rock and roll. You’d think this would be as easy to do on Windows Vista and 7, but it isn’t. By Default, Microsoft has disabled the sound cards (on board or added) as input devices. Its an easy thing to fix, if you know where to look.

To enable the Wave Out mix:

1. Go to the Sound item in control panel
2. click on the Recording tab
3. Right click on the background of the tab and select “Show Disabled Devices”
4. find the Wave Out mix item and right click on it and select Enable
5. It will now show up as a device channel in application like Cubase and Audition

Now you can select the input device as your card. I did have to set the sound card as Default on my windows 7 box, but other then that its been pretty good… Let me know if this has been helpful…
So now you can capture audio from any program in Windows

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