20
TROUBLESHOOTING
NO SOUND:
•
If you are not getting any sound into the software application, go back to the
preferences as shown above and make sure you have selected the USB input for the
recording device.
•
If you cannot hear the music but you do see the music on the screen, open your
preferences (Figure 2) and make sure that your
Playback Device
is set to your internal
computer soundcard.
•
Power Cycle: Close Audacity, turn off the turntable and unplug the USB Cable. Then
plug in the USB Cable, turn on the turntable, and reopen Audacity.
If you are not seeing the microphone slider, please go to the
Preferences
menu in Audacity,
click on the
Interface
tab and make sure that the
Enable Mixer Toolbar
and
Enable Meter
Toolbar
options are checked. If they are not, please check them and then press
OK
.
•
Check the microphone slider to make sure that it is at full volume, all the way to the right
as shown in Figure 20:
If you are not seeing the microphone slider,
please go to the
Preferences
menu in
Audacity, click on the
Interface
tab and
make sure that the
Enable Mixe
r
Toolbar
and
Enable Meter Toolba
r
options are checked. If they are
not, please check them and then
press
OK
.
If you are not able to hear
any audio as you play the
record, please click on the
microphone
drop-down
arrow and select
Monitor
Input
. This will enable you
to hear the audio from the
turntable, even if you have
not
record-enabled
the
Audacity application.
Figure 19: Monitor Input