YanKleber
Retired
Hi,
To capture a website sound used to be a VERY simple task on my old computer (Windows XP with onboard sound card). Nowadays, however, at my Windows 7 PC with an external USB interface (Behringer UCA-222) it seems to became a task impossible to perform!
Googling here and there I have found some references to the fact that I should enable the stereo mixer to do that but it seems that it doesn't exist on my computer. Even opening the control panel window sound, right-clicking a blank area under the recording tab and ensuring that both options (show disabled and disconnected devices) are checked still the only thing I have is 'Microphone'.
Looking for a different approach, I found a 'tutorial' showing how to do the thing with Audacity (no stereo mixer mention at all). Well, it 'kind of' recorded but in a VERY low volume like -30 dB or so. The recording IS there somewhere under a loud hiss, and therefore unusable.
Since mine is an USB (external) interface I suspect that it processes (plays) the sound but doesn't send it back to the computer and that's why it is not recording. I tried to switch monitoring on-off to see if it would make any difference but no matter what I do nothing works.
Any idea?
To capture a website sound used to be a VERY simple task on my old computer (Windows XP with onboard sound card). Nowadays, however, at my Windows 7 PC with an external USB interface (Behringer UCA-222) it seems to became a task impossible to perform!
Googling here and there I have found some references to the fact that I should enable the stereo mixer to do that but it seems that it doesn't exist on my computer. Even opening the control panel window sound, right-clicking a blank area under the recording tab and ensuring that both options (show disabled and disconnected devices) are checked still the only thing I have is 'Microphone'.
Looking for a different approach, I found a 'tutorial' showing how to do the thing with Audacity (no stereo mixer mention at all). Well, it 'kind of' recorded but in a VERY low volume like -30 dB or so. The recording IS there somewhere under a loud hiss, and therefore unusable.
Since mine is an USB (external) interface I suspect that it processes (plays) the sound but doesn't send it back to the computer and that's why it is not recording. I tried to switch monitoring on-off to see if it would make any difference but no matter what I do nothing works.
Any idea?