Ok. I am totally frustrated. I am running vista Ultimate and decided to
record some music from the Internet. I was using Realtek on board sound.
Had stereo mix check as default and setup correctly in both Roxio and
Audacity. Could not get it to record. I purchased a SIIG 5.1 Soundwave and
set that up correctly. I even updated the drivers all the way around. Never
had these issues in XP. I know Vista handles sound differently but I really
do not know what to do at this point. Any advice would be greatly
appreciated.
--
Sourceman

Do you get any messages in hardware control or do you see a red/white cross
over your sound icon in the system tray?

"Sourceman" wrote:

> Ok. I am totally frustrated. I am running vista Ultimate and decided to
> record some music from the Internet. I was using Realtek on board sound.
> Had stereo mix check as default and setup correctly in both Roxio and
> Audacity. Could not get it to record. I purchased a SIIG 5.1 Soundwave and
> set that up correctly. I even updated the drivers all the way around. Never
> had these issues in XP. I know Vista handles sound differently but I really
> do not know what to do at this point. Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
> --
> Sourceman

No messages. Everything is normal. I am quite sure it has something to do
with the way Vista handles sound. Just have no clue what to do.
--
Sourceman


"Nick" wrote:

> Do you get any messages in hardware control or do you see a red/white cross
> over your sound icon in the system tray?
>
> "Sourceman" wrote:
>
> > Ok. I am totally frustrated. I am running vista Ultimate and decided to
> > record some music from the Internet. I was using Realtek on board sound.
> > Had stereo mix check as default and setup correctly in both Roxio and
> > Audacity. Could not get it to record. I purchased a SIIG 5.1 Soundwave and
> > set that up correctly. I even updated the drivers all the way around. Never
> > had these issues in XP. I know Vista handles sound differently but I really
> > do not know what to do at this point. Any advice would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> > --
> > Sourceman

yeah vista is a real pain in the ass when it comes to sound. I'm struggling
myself for making my onboard sound card work again. Sorry I couldn't help you.

"Sourceman" wrote:

> No messages. Everything is normal. I am quite sure it has something to do
> with the way Vista handles sound. Just have no clue what to do.
> --
> Sourceman
>
>
> "Nick" wrote:
>
> > Do you get any messages in hardware control or do you see a red/white cross
> > over your sound icon in the system tray?
> >
> > "Sourceman" wrote:
> >
> > > Ok. I am totally frustrated. I am running vista Ultimate and decided to
> > > record some music from the Internet. I was using Realtek on board sound.
> > > Had stereo mix check as default and setup correctly in both Roxio and
> > > Audacity. Could not get it to record. I purchased a SIIG 5.1 Soundwave and
> > > set that up correctly. I even updated the drivers all the way around. Never
> > > had these issues in XP. I know Vista handles sound differently but I really
> > > do not know what to do at this point. Any advice would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > > --
> > > Sourceman

/Sourceman/ said:

> Ok. I am totally frustrated. I am running vista Ultimate and decided
> to record some music from the Internet. I was using Realtek on board
> sound. Had stereo mix check as default and setup correctly in both
> Roxio and Audacity. Could not get it to record. I purchased a SIIG
> 5.1 Soundwave and set that up correctly. I even updated the drivers
> all the way around. Never had these issues in XP. I know Vista
> handles sound differently but I really do not know what to do at this
> point. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ultimate here records "what you hear", using the simple SoundRecorder
utility, and saves to a WMA file.

In your soundcard's PROPERTIES - record tab, verify that "what you hear"
(or similar) is selected. Under the audio tab be sure that volume is
turned up, not muted.

This a SoundBlaster Audigy card; yours may be different.