Trying to record internal audio

BoxFaery wrote on 5/18/2023, 4:36 AM

Hi, I'm trying to use SFAS to record internal audio sound, but I cant seem to get it to record anything at all. I've followed a bunch of tutorials, as I'm brand new to the programme, but nothing seems to be working. I've made sure Stereo Mix is the default recording option and I've fiddled around with the settings in SF itself, but can't seem to get it going. Any chance someone has an idiot-proof walk-through or even just some advice?

SoundForge Audio Studio 15 Build 121 64-bit

Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Build 19045.2965

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rraud wrote on 5/18/2023, 11:00 AM

Welcome to the Magix Sound Forge users community @BoxFaery. There has been numerous threads on this subject, search "record what you hear" on this forum.

Some 'PCs allow "recording what you hear" natively, some do not,. All my Dell PCs allowed it, desktops and laptops going back to Win 95, OTOH, I had two Toshiba Satellites that could not without a third-party utility...
As I recall "record-what-u-hear" was originally a term used on the old Sound Blaster cards. On most Realtek cards, it is refereed to as "Stereo mix" so if that is what you have, select 'Stereo mix" instead of the mic (or whatever) as the record source in the PC's sound manager settings... Then... go to SF's Audio Device type settings and select "Stereo mix" as the "Audio Device type in "Options> Preferences> Audio> Record tab". In either case, the speaker/headphone volume will control the record level.

Another option is trying VB-CABLE, which is a virtual audio device cable. All audio coming in the input is throughput.

I am not aware of anything that is fool-proof.

johnebaker wrote on 5/18/2023, 12:25 PM

@BoxFaery

In addition to @rraud comment check the Windows Settings, Privacy & Security, App permissions - Microphone, Let desktop access your microphone option is set to on.

Perversely this option affects all audio sources for recording!

John EB
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