Whether I left-click on the Monitor bar (“Click to start monitoring”) or turn on Monitoring by using the pull-down menu from the microphone icon (“Start monitoring”), nothing happens. In my Audio MIDI setup, it shows the Format as 48,000 Hz, so (following directions) in Audacity > Prefs > Quality, I set the Default Sample Rate to match that (48,000 Hz), and the Default Sample Format is 16-bit.īUT when I have a tape playing (and I can hear it through the earphones that are plugged into the capture device), when I click to start Monitoring in Audacity, there is no bar, green or otherwise, that shows up. I have followed all the directions in the Audacity guides “Recording with USB turntables or USB cassette decks” and “Mac and USB input devices.” In my Mac Settings > Sound, I have selected “USB PnP Audio Device,” and while I’m playing a cassette tape from the USB capture device, the Input level meter there does work it goes up to about three-quarters of the way up the meter. I recently bought a USB cassette capture device (MIUONO brand) from Amazon and am trying to digitize some of my old cassette tapes.
This is my first time trying to use Audacity.
