VIA AC'97 Mic is not fucntioning.

[Guest]

I opened the program SOUND RECORDER. I went to 'Edit', then clicked on 'Audio
Properties'. Then I clicked on the
tab 'Volume' for the Sound Recording. That takes me to a window labeled
'Recording Control'. There are 5 scroll bars...at the bottom of each scroll
bar there's a little box that you can click to mute it. The scroll bars are:
Recording, Stereo Mixer, Mic, Line In, CD Player.
If I check the box under Stereo Mixer, all the Sound Recorder does it
record whatever audio I'm currently listening to. If I check the box under
any other scroll bar, and then press the Record button, I hear this
disturbing noice and the green line with the black background barely moves at
all.

I posted this before, but my problem wasn't solved completely. Any help
would be appreciated.

 

[kurttrail]

I opened the program SOUND RECORDER. I went to 'Edit', then clicked
on 'Audio Properties'. Then I clicked on the
tab 'Volume' for the Sound Recording. That takes me to a window
labeled 'Recording Control'. There are 5 scroll bars...at the bottom
of each scroll bar there's a little box that you can click to mute
it. The scroll bars are: Recording, Stereo Mixer, Mic, Line In, CD
Player.
If I check the box under Stereo Mixer, all the Sound Recorder does it
record whatever audio I'm currently listening to. If I check the box
under any other scroll bar, and then press the Record button, I hear
this disturbing noice and the green line with the black background
barely moves at all.

I posted this before, but my problem wasn't solved completely. Any
help would be appreciated.

Is the check box to mute or to select the recording source?

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[Mike Fields]

I opened the program SOUND RECORDER. I went to 'Edit', then clicked on 'Audio
Properties'. Then I clicked on the
tab 'Volume' for the Sound Recording. That takes me to a window labeled
'Recording Control'. There are 5 scroll bars...at the bottom of each scroll
bar there's a little box that you can click to mute it. The scroll bars are:
Recording, Stereo Mixer, Mic, Line In, CD Player.
If I check the box under Stereo Mixer, all the Sound Recorder does it
record whatever audio I'm currently listening to. If I check the box under
any other scroll bar, and then press the Record button, I hear this
disturbing noice and the green line with the black background barely moves at
all.

I posted this before, but my problem wasn't solved completely. Any help
would be appreciated.

Well, maybe it's just me, but in my experience with AC97 stuff on
motherboards , they just do not handle the low level from your
typical dynamic mic. Plug an old crystal mic (100mv) and it works
well. The dynamics only put out about 5 mv and none of the systems
I have experimented with will handle that -- if you speak very loud
into the mic, you can almost hear it. I use an "audiobuddy" to take
a good mic output and bump it up to the line in voltage (150 mv)
and it works very well.

mikey

 

[Jone Doe]

Possible answer. Do you have a web cam with a built in microphone?
Sometimes it will 'take over' from the microphone plugged in. Try
unplugging you web cam and see if it comes back.

 

[Ed.]

While that window is up with the five scroll bars, go up and click on
Options and then on Advanced Controls.

A new window will come up and now under the mic make sure the Select box is
checked. There will also be a button named Advanced. Click on that button.

Put a check mark to boost the mic if there is a option there for that under
the Other Controls section. See if that helps.

 

[Guest]

KURTTRAIL: The box is to select the recording source. Because when I click on
the box under ‘Stereo Mixer’, and then I recorded while playing some music,
it only recorded the audio coming from the PC.

MIKE FIELDS: I have a built in mic…so I don’t know if that’ll work.

JONE DOE: I don’t have a web cam…but I do have a built in mic.

ED: I did that…and I even checked the 1 20dB Boost box. You know how there’s
a scroll bar you can move vertically (Volume) and one horizontally (Balance)?
Well, you can’t adjust the bars under “Recording†at all. And you can only
adjust the vertical bar under “Micâ€. All of the other scroll bars are
adjustable.