I recently got a laptop with windows 7. I bought a Microsoft web-cam. I realized that the mic in the web-cam was better than the built-in mic my laptop had. So I went to control panel/sound and I disabled the built-in microphone and left only the web-cam microphone enabled. When I went back to Audacity it showed a message that said “Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate”. Did i do something wrong? How do I make my built-in mic go back to normal?

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elissa-kidney

I recently got a laptop with windows 7. I bought a Microsoft web-cam. I realized that the mic in the web-cam was better than the built-in mic my laptop had. So I went to control panel/sound and I disabled the built-in microphone and left only the web-cam microphone enabled. When I went back to Audacity it showed a message that said "Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate". Did i do something wrong? How do I make my built-in mic go back to normal?

asked on 5th Aug 2011 | 1 Answers | Answer It!

uttam

answered on 5th Aug 2011 | |

It’s the same location where you disabled the microphone, you have to also make sure the inbuilt mic is selected as the default input source while recording.

• Right click on the volume icon in the system tray and then click “Recording devices”.
• Right click on the blank place in the popped up window and then select “Show Disabled Devices” and “Show Disconnected Devices”.
• Right click on Microphone and then click “Enable”.
• Highlight the microphone and then choose “Set as Default Device”.
• Click Apply.

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