My operating system is Microsoft XP and my browser is Firefox.
I have just downloaded Audiocity, but the instructions tell me to Start Audio City and choose View->Float Mixer Toolbar. In the drop-down menu on Audiocity's mixer tool bar, choose 'Wave Out' or 'Stereo Mix' as the input source.
The problem I am experiencing is that I am not given these two choices, I have the choice of 'Line in' or 'Microphone'.
I haven't used it but use ProTools a lot. The description you give is confusing. Wave Out and Stereo Mix would be output options. Line in and Microphone are input options.
I use Audacity and I tried recording using the USB side of a record deck ive just bought but the quality was atrocious so ive used the other output of the deck, phono, and gone straight into the 'mic' input of my computer and now all is fine. Ive set the input to 'stereo mix' and the sound is fine but I do have to turn down the mic input to 0.1 otherwise the sound is distorted...
Probably have to do it from your system settings first. Double-click the volume icon in the bottom right of your screen (or go to Control Panel and choose Sounds and Audio Devices etc.). Go to Options and then Properties. Choose your Input device for your sound card under Mixer devices. See if Stereo Mix is available there and then choose it.
In Audacity, you don't need to View Float Mixer, you can dock it and have it there permanently. In the Edit ... Preferences options, choose your Sound Card under the Audi/IO Recording device. Don't know if Stereo Mixer will appear but I would hope that it might work as the default.
After double-clicking the volume icon, when you see mixer device and your sigma tec audio, click to the right of it and see if you can choose sigma tec audio input instead of output (hopefully you have two options!).
Then, in Audacity, under your recording device, choose sigma tec audio input.