Thursday, 02 May 2019
I’m trying to record from the line in socket of my soundcard and I can’t – what gives?
Well… you might need to fiddle with your Windows volume controls – I know I do (I imagine it depends on your sound card drivers exactly how this works). In my case, I double click on the little speaker in the systray to bring up the main volume mixer, and then I select Options / Properties and click on the «Recording» radio button. Then, after making sure that «Line» is among the selected controls in the little window at the bottom, I click the OK button. This gives me the mixer for input controls. Then I select the checkbox under the «Line In» slider, and adjust the slider itself (with some music playing through the connection) until I get a good level. *Then* it’s possible to record ok from the line in.
