Sound recorder - background sounds

[jeffreyj]

How do you record the background sounds through Sound Recorder? (e.g.
i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
as a file on Sound Recorder)

Jeff

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Aim the microphone(s) at the speaker(s), I'd guess.

 

[wallaby]

audacity might do the trick, it's on sourceforge, its free, it works on
vista

 

[Patrick Keenan]

How do you record the background sounds through Sound Recorder? (e.g.
i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
as a file on Sound Recorder)

Jeff

What are these sounds coming from, and when?

The reason I ask is that if you are hearing a sound - to take, for example,
the Windows Startup sound - from the PC, it already exists as a digital
sound file and there isn't a need to re-record them.

What you would do is look at the application you're using, make a note of
what you're doing when the sound is heard, then look at the options to
identify the sound file name.

HTH
-pk

 

[jeffreyj]

What are these sounds coming from, and when?

The reason I ask is that if you are hearing asound- to take, for example,
the Windows Startupsound- from the PC, it already exists as a digitalsoundfile and there isn't a need to re-record them.

What you would do is look at the application you're using, make a note of
what you're doing when thesoundis heard, then look at the options to
identify thesoundfile name.

HTH
-pk

I'm trying to record an online call on Skype actually. I want to
record what I'm hearing through my headset and what I'm saying through
the microphone. Can you do that?

I tried enabling the "WaveOut Mix" under "Recording Devices", but it
didn't work.

Jeff

 

[Patrick Keenan]

What are these sounds coming from, and when?

The reason I ask is that if you are hearing asound- to take, for example,
the Windows Startupsound- from the PC, it already exists as a
digitalsoundfile and there isn't a need to re-record them.

What you would do is look at the application you're using, make a note of
what you're doing when thesoundis heard, then look at the options to
identify thesoundfile name.

HTH
-pk

I'm trying to record an online call on Skype actually. I want to
record what I'm hearing through my headset and what I'm saying through
the microphone. Can you do that?

I tried enabling the "WaveOut Mix" under "Recording Devices", but it
didn't work.

Jeff
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Ok, that's a completely different scenario, and you can't do this with
Windows Recorder. You could probably do it with a 3rd party app that
records streams, such as Windows Media Recorder.

http://www.wmrecorder.com/
HTH
-pk

 

[jeffreyj]

Ah ok then. Well in that case, I still want to know how do I get the
Waveout Mix thing to work?

On my old XP computer, it worked just fine. I could record background
sounds, anything, I could record calls with that too, actually.

When I go to Recording Devices, there is Microphone and Waveout Mix.
I can record from Microphone, but not from Waveout Mix. Waveout Mix
is marked as "unavailable", and when I try to record with it, it says
the recording device cannot be found. I don't know why it doesn't
work.

Thanks
Jeff