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.......Check your sounds, sounds in control panel.
I am making an effort to utilize my little Dell as a recording device for sounds from my 12 string acoustic guitar. A present, this effort seems to be a logical quest. I have the computer on hand, it has Voice Recorder app, Windows Media Player and a couple other related apps. As is, the only real editing it provides is trimming and a little roundabout freq equaling. There are 18 sampling rates available. Currently using 2 channel 16 bit 44100 Hz. Studio quality and high end editing are not paramount right now. What I have used for recording and sharing prior is recording on [imath]120 fuji film 20 M pix digital camera. Mostly adequate for my purposes. I record the tune, upload to Dell, trim if required, change file type if advantageous, Sound quality is considerably below that of a quality FM receiver. Generally not a problem. To record directly to computer, a microphone is my proffered device. I have tried 3 styles of "snap on" guitar pick ups. All were disappointing. Signal out was flat, lifeless, unequal as far as freq response. I have been looking for an sufficient quality mic for a couple years. There is a decent selection of off-the-shelf mics for[/imath]100 to [imath]1200 but don't meet my po boy status. I've tried karioke mics, walkie talkie and telephone mics, earbuds in backwards config, other output devices, etc. Needed near[/imath]0 price tag. Found mic / earbud headset at $1.25 Tree. Works well. I have a 60 watt Pyle guitar amp. Only perks are gain, bass, mid, and high tone, and a time / distance reverb sort of thing. Anyway that I manipulated signal from add on pick ups, the sound just would not come alive. I'm amazed at the sound that this cheaply constructed mic earbud "headset" puts out. So, super simple to record 2 channel sound and play back. But if I want to lay down accompaniment trace, I get puckered orifice disorder. Recording from any player app back to computer can be done in simple order by direct headphone out to mic in. The main volume out level generally = a 3 to 5 setting. That's using a 100 point volume scale. The rerecorded music is sufficient for my needs, currently. To accompany an existing track, I need to hear that track. A 3-5 output level doesn't even excite an earbud. I gotta run for a while but will continue late