Sound wont record on laptop.?
Sep.02, 2011 in
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It’s hard to explain, but ill try my best.
Right, when i plug my microphone in (a simple white clip on microphone from creative) i can hear myself speak in it, but whenever i try to record sound, it just wont work. i have gone onto volume control and then properties and ticked microphone, and made sure it wasn’t muted. i don’t know what to do, anyone have any ideas?
On msn, i try to record sound, then it says it cannot send because no sound was recorded. My laptop is not great but it works fine with every other program i have, it works with a webcam, but surely, if i can hear myself, surely i should be able to record?
(laptop is panasonic, no idea what the model is called but it says tough book near the keyboard if that helps?)
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:37 pm
click on start >accessories>entertainment> sound recorder
click record and start talking if you see the line move you are recording
if not go to sound properties and enable line in as well as mic try and say something with that window open see which one has the bars light up
move the volume slider all the way up then try sound recorder again
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September 3rd, 2011 at 3:37 am
The Windows sound recorder is lame, and only records for a couple of minutes.
there are several freeware items for simple voice recording:
(both these are here: http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwaudiorecorder.html)
SwiffRec
lets you record your voice to a Flash file, that can be played (streamed) in any browser by pressing a Play button. The complete HTML code with the button is created by the program, so all you have to do is insert it into your web page and your visitors can push the button to listen to your recording. SwiffRec is extremely easy to use
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Have a go with ‘Audacity’…
It’s a full feature sound recording app., and unlike Windows ‘sound recorder’, it runs indefinitely.
It takes a bit of gettin’ use to, but once you do, you’ll luv it.
Record (with headset/mic) your voice in Audacity, then play around with the tempo, speed, etc. (in ‘Effects’ I think) to get it like you want.
Don’t forget to save the file as well as the recording itself, so you can have the exact same settings so your next recording is identical to the first.
Freeware.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
And this plug-in will extend the range of Audacity to work with Mp3 files:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz?modtime=1159107882&big_mirror=0
90 additional ‘Effects’ plug-in’s are here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/beta/ladspa/ladspa-0.4.15.exe
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