🔊 How to Record Audio on PC

[@lillianr1124]

Lifesaver!!! Amazing. First option worked. Didn't have "voice recorder" application but I do have "audacity". Put headphones on and voila! Magnificent! Thank you!

[@HarjeevanSingh-Tech]

Wow! Amazing video Kevin! I never heard of VB Audio before! 😁 Thanks for sharing it Kevin! 😊😎

[@charityeki8521]

Thanks Kevin. I installed Audacity on my system years ago but forgot how to use it. I was almost going to uninstall it a few months ago but thank god i waited for a bit! Seeing this your video i made my first recording with Audacity! Tnx

[@jfrogthevirus]

Thank you. Been having the worst time trying got make stereo mix work on new Windows 11 device. Installed Realtek codec which fixed the issue but this then stopped my headphones from working properly. This is a nice simple work-around.

[@Shazian_Fleur]

WOW! Thank you so much.....The first one worked like a charm....I do have Audacity as well but I didn't need to even use that. Great and simple Tutorial...Worked for windows 10 too :)

[@mindingthegaps]

I love you. I was so unhappy that I couldn't make the recording work. You are a star. Thank you.

[@burnt1ce85]

The first technique is missing an important step: 1. Go to the bottom-right corner of the icon tray. 2. Right-click the sound icon. 3. A menu will pop out. Choose Sounds 4. Go to the Recording tab 5. Right click on "Stereo Mix" and click on "Set as Default Communication Device" 6. Click on "Ok" After doing this, recording worked on my Windows 10 machine

[@screeech1]

What do you do next to start recording?

[@healthyhumans1383]

love you bro Thanku so much for this valuable video , i was facing steriox issue but this audacity software solved my problem

[@KevinStratvert]

Happy to help

[@chunkymonkey8750]

No way dude. These are one of those godly videos you came across ever so often which is just really simple but extremely helpful. I knew there was an easy way to do this. Thank you so much for this!

[@kokilamishra8696]

Good kevin.keep it up

[@samuelpedroso151]

Thank you, your video was of great help for me. From Brazil.

[@yurit3428]

Great video , i have learnt a lot from your videos

[@solar_potatoe]

tysm clicked off the first 5 min cus it worked tyyyyyy my boiii

[@AvanishKesharwani]

Kevin, I have a suggestion, how great it would be if you make a video on how to use Task Scheduler?

[@RMDK22]

nice audacity was perfect thanks

[@abdulkhan2010]

THANKS MR.KEVIN

[@JustV27]

Cheers mate :) Very helpful

[@ushanbimsara7892]

please do a part 2 on python

[@saraomar2667]

شكرا thank you

[@edisnipes]

thank you!

[@davidjamgochian]

I was wondering if you could have Cookies🥛

[@Mariotrius]

cheers Mate :)

[@hasinijaganmohan7530]

bro i love you

[@ThisWeirdWorldWonders]

I love you mate

[@UniqueSide1]

SAEI AM ALSO RUNNING WINDOWS 11

[@TETO_mesmerizer-TETO]

tnx

[@scruby_music]

I've set it up but it's not receiving any audio. Noting I'm using an external sound card for my music studio (looks like you were too). I've tried all the different outputs but doesn't seem to work. Thoughts?

[@conlomerate4841]

None of the solutions allow you to record both other party's zoom meeting voice nor your voice at the same time if you are using headphones. Without using speakers and only with headphones, how can you record both voices?

[@hearthatsongagain]

@conlomerate, did you ever find an answer to this?

[@caleyhall]

With a mixer that supports ‘mix minus’ so the voices don’t repeat against each other..

[@gordonmisiedjan9707]

Thanks for the help it works 😅😅

[@Lulu_Cutie817]

@@hearthatsongagain😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉

[@juliauwanto]

Same question here

[@SavageGothamChess]

I will record Kevin's voice instead of music. Your voice is just so clear and easy to understand. Audacity and OBS are probably the best free apps out there that do almost everything you want it to do. The only Window that I will never close is the Windows operating system. Great video.

[@darkbionic1044]

So far I’m sure they will start charging sooner than later

[@blikjewater]

But if you use Obs it'll convert into a clip where sound is played so it isn't actually a recording?

[@NoEgg4u]

Kevin, if my PC is playing a 44.1 kHz / 16 bit .wav file, from some web site, then how do I know that my recording will be that same 44.1 kHz / 16 bit .wav file, and not something close, but sounds the same through my PC's speakers? And taking this to the next level... What if my PC is playing a 192 kHz / 24 bit .flac file, from some web site. Same question applies. You know how if an office copy machine makes a copy of a copy of a copy, etc, you eventually see the degradation? How do I know whether the same is happening with copying the sound files? How do I know whether or not some audio conversion is taking place, that tinkers with the Pulse Code Modulation of the audio? The server that is sending the sound file has an actual sound file that it is sending to me. I want my copy to be equal (not 99.99% nearly as good) to that which is on the server. Will the methods that you showed in this video accomplish my goal? Which one(s)? Thank you.

[@KevinStratvert]

Ideally download the source file. If that's not an option, the second method using Audacity allows you to configure the Project Rate. That'll ensure you can match the quality levels. It should be an identical copy since it's all digital end-to-end.

[@NoEgg4u]

​@@KevinStratvert I understand that when you make a copy of a file (any file -- not just sound files), then your copy will be 100% identical to the source file, and that you can make copies of copies, forever, and all will be 100% identical. However, how do I know that Audacity is not recording some lossless 192 kHz .flac file as a lossy .mp3 file, and then converting that .mp3 file (and upsampling that .mp3 file) to the 192 kHz file to the Project Rate value that I set? In such a case, my resulting 192 kHz file will not be the same as the server's 192 kHz file. My goal is to have each of the 192,000 samples of each second copied exactly as is, and I do not know if Audacity is doing that. Sort of like having a Word document, and converting it to a PDF document, and then back to a Word document. Your original Word document might appear to be the same as your new, double-converted Word document. But if you ran the "fc.exe" command, and compared your two (supposedly) identical Word documents, would they be really be identical? And does your web browser need to support the various lossless file formats? Is it your web browser that initially captures the sound samples, which (in your example) Audacity scrapes and saves for you? I appreciate your feedback. This is important for me. I have been trying to nail this down for a long time, and was pleased to see you post this video. Thank you.

[@twelthstring]

In my case stereo mix is not available on my HP notebook. In Audacity, the play back quality is poor compared to the original sound, even when I adjust the recording settings to a higher level. Who has the same experience?

[@DaleDix]

What on earth? What happened to Kevin Here? Not happy. Still a good video though.

[@neilmuller4484]

Configuring StereoMix on Windows 10 looks completely different on my PC than shown here. Your tutorials are excellent so I hate to ask you to do more work. While most of us are sticking with or can't upgrade to Win11 we need both the Win10 and Win11 versions when changes need to be made using Setings. Keep up the excellent tutorials, always clear and easy to follow. Thanks.

[@drinnerd8532]

Neil Muller I was considering saying the same thing. I really appreciate Kevin's work! But ... finding these features within these two operating systems is a completely different experience for me as well, as I am also on Windows 10 still.

[@alexflu2]

I had to update my audio driver in device manager to fix mine.

[@AmodeusR]

Because it's not Windows 10, he's using Windows *11*

[@tyrant351]

@@AmodeusR You really just read the first sentence and ignored the rest huh

[@AmodeusR]

@@tyrant351 Well... If it's like a job for the video's creator, sure. But most of time people are doing such things just because they want/like, so in the end it's *us* that should search in another place. I'm sure there are other videos in Windows 10 or even 7 if it's the case, or even text explanation.

[@AvanishKesharwani]

I was knowing two of them but never heard of VB-Audio, it's also a good alternative. Thanks for the video + amazing thumbnail. Well, please make a video on thumbnail editing i.e, photo editing :-)

[@dianaarmstrong5072]

Thanks, Audacity was exactly what I needed!

[@all-startokufan3488]

Hey Kevin Just wanna sck Csn the windows voice recorder pick the audio from my mic as well as the street.mix audio ?

[@franklidgad]

When using Audacity at 4:19 to the right of Speakers where it says Mono you should select Stereo. I would think you would want the music you record to be in Stereo. As a side note Audacity takes up alot of RAW internal storage when recording so you may not want to be recording for very long recording session if you are low on disk space. This storage is freed up when you exit however. it is only used while the app is open. Learned this the hard way. Computer froze up because I ran out of disk space and had no way to save. Mind you it was a long recording session. I don't see a reason to use Virtual Audio Cable unless you have multiple audio sources using multiple audio cards. OBS is another free tool you can use to save audio but it only saves as MP4 but it is not application storage intensive. Just open the MP4 in Audacity to obtain the audio and save as whatever format you need.

[@noble_rj1305]

Pls help me go back to windows 10 from windows 11 insider preview and stop reinstalling it.

[@johnroydelacruz1433]

why does my word document gets messed up when i upload it? I hope you can make solution about this problem

[@jiyeonkim6444]

Hi Kevin, thanks for your helpful tutorial, i just subscribe. I want to record zoom conference call meeting (i used plain apple earphones) and my computer is dell window 9 and i only can record my voice (using voice recorder in window) but I couldn’t record other ppl presentation voice. Is it because i didnt set as stereo setting? If i change to stereo mix setting, is it possible to record other people voice during call as well as my voice when i used earphone to listen and talk? Can you please help?

[@emmanueljrodriguez691]

I have the same question! Any solution found?

[@Mike-mf6pc]

Stereo mix on Windows 10 is different, here's how: settings \ sound \ manage sound devices Under input devices, Stereo Mix is disabled by default. Click it (Stereo Mix) and you should see an Enable button

[@devarshnayyar3910]

1st This guy always listen to my problems in my mind Moreover today is Google's birthday

[@flicksonj]

unfortunately the stereo mix will cause problems while we want to say anything in a meeting

[@KevinStratvert]

For meetings, Audacity (option 2) is likely the best option since you don't have to record the entire mix.

[@vollstaendingennamen]

its amazing that i have to look up how to record sounds on my pc considering i have been doing it no problem 15 years ago, devolution in full force

[@gggg-vg4vj]

how to record webinar types that you register for & they run there & then ?

[@arthurmorgan64]

not working first one...with windows 11 sound recorder. i did all steps 2 times...still not able to record any system audio. please help.

[@harroo6099]

AAAAAAAAAAA NONE OF THEM WORKED stereo mix didnt pick up my audio, audacity didnt have a thing in the top left for a speaker and the audio cable didnt show up on my settings

[@harroo6099]

i tried another tutorial and it didnt work idk whats happening

[@easysolutionsforcomputer.4592]

Sir is microsoft account free.

[@flicksonj]

Also I knew the Virtual Audio Method

[@cenevspeed_CARS]

I use my video editor Kevin! VB Audio was quite new to me, thanks for introducing it to me🤔. Really cool desktop background Kevin and seems like you are using Windows 11 permanently now😎!!

[@yourhomechannel6414]

I am using Windows 11 BETA and it is Rock-Solid Stable! If you ask me whether you whether I recommend the Windows 11 Insider version, then I would definitely do that! Indeed, Insiders will get access to Android apps way before the general public gets! 😄

[@cenevspeed_CARS]

@@yourhomechannel6414 I too have installed the Windows 11 Insider Preview, it is great!. But seems like Kevin is using it for all his work, he is a PRO😎

[@yourhomechannel6414]

@@cenevspeed_CARS Yeah! Ke is a PRO for sure! 😀

[@udeeshnagula9834]

Wow!!!!! Kevin I'm am searching for this and I saw the message that you made the video on how to record audio in pc wow!! Kevin pls mark a heart to me and pls reply.

[@udeeshnagula9834]

Pls make a video on android apps in windows 11 Kevin

[@johnq.public2621]

New Subscriber Here! 😃👋 VERY useful, well done.

[@aditya_asundi]

I just record screen w/ audio and rename it as mp3

[@KevinStratvert]

that works too!

[@banzanbuddhist1451]

Hi, thanks for this video, I have windows 11 and I did the first one exactly like you did but I don't have voice recorder, do you have a link for voice recorder or how can I get it? Thanks, UPDATE, I got it working mate. Had to download the Windows Voice Recorder App. Thanks

[@oldbrassman2157]

Hi Kevin. This was a very interesting and well presented video. Let me subscribe to your channel first.... done! And I also hit the "like" button. OK, now I don't feel so guilty asking you to help me solve a specific recording situation. I'm, back to practicing trumpet again (after almost 60 years!) and would like to record my practice sessions on my PC, hopefully not having to buy any expensive special external microphones. I feel like it should be able to be done using the internal mic on the PC. I've got a Dell All-in-One, about 4 years old. Windows 10. When you have a chance, please let me know how I can record portions of my trumpet practice and then play back the sound through my PC's (Altec) speakers. Thanks.

[@runawayroadster]

Hi Kevin, How are you

[@ChessOnlyGuru]

pls..pls make Tutorial on A-Z Macro....Thanks.

[@MXR1gg]

I have a macbook. Does this work on it too?

[@lokithnimsara]

How do I find the settings on Windows 10, they are different...

[@flicksonj]

I already knew the stereo Mix option. It is basically disabled by default

[@KevinStratvert]

Yeah, not sure why they disable by default... seems like a useful feature to enable by default ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@prokorshopal4865]

0:00 - Hi Kevin. 👋 6:54 - 492nd thumbs up from me. 👍 Cheers.

[@JustBlankNoInfo]

Stunning Thumbnail Kevin! I thought this needed third-party software, to record the audio then import the audio, and trimming it to get the final result. But you've made it so easy! Enjoyed the video, thank you so much, Kevin!

[@Milkyway_is_too_far_to_reach]

its edited.

[@dreamweaver221]

Thank you very much for this tutorial, I'll be using Audacity to record the sounds I need.

[@UchihaShamandalie]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! It was very helpful

[@KevinStratvert]

No worries!

[@sharmaneeraj3]

op

[@nanchanger]

I'm playing a cassette tape listening to it thru my PC... When I try to monitor and record the music with Audacity the recording level is at the max level and the "Recording Level" sliding button does nothing, no change... ?? Anyone know how to adjust the Record Level?

[@yellow4602]

cool!

[@nahidacademybd]

Thank you so much. Important vedio.

[@lizatubilleja]

Thank you very much! i was able to resolve the problem of not recording my laptop audio. i thought i needed to troubleshoot. and your voice is very clear when i test recorded.Thank you! :)

[@Ladythyme]

Uggggh. …..Why can’t anything be simple? ….. no time to do all this uggggh

[@KevinStratvert]

They're all fairly straightforward once you run through them once -- I promise 😉

[@Ryuzaki2100]

Wow, Thanks a ton. I was looking for how to record just the audio of a KZbin video other than downloading and trimming and you have given me three of the best approaches, Kevin. I know about Audacity and I have watched your tutorial but I haven't downloaded it yet. I didn't know about VB audio at all. Thanks again and I'm also wrapping up on this comment.

[@jagvillsesolen7373]

Can you record with dac 24 bit 192 hz

[@muhammadfaisalbaig8714]

Thanks the first one worked for me

[@mrwise7067]

I'm utilizing 'One Not' for text-to-speech, and my goal is to produce an audiobook. However, I'm constantly dealing with unwanted background noise during recording. Is there a way to achieve a noise-free recording?

[@davidmason8387]

In Windows Voice Record, Audacity, and Studio One 4, if I use Stereo Mix to record Windows audio, it sounds terrible. A lot of depth is gone and it sounds kind of echo-ey/distant. I'll record a track using Stereo Mix while playing a song with iTunes. iTunes audio output sounds great. The Stereo Mix device in the Control Panel Sound settings is set to be 2 channel 24 bit 48000 Hz and the DAWs are set the same (48000Hz). Sound Recorder software is set to record WAV Lossless and Audio Quality is set to Best. If I screen record iTunes playing a song and rip the audio in Studio One, the track sounds much better but kind of off still. I'm assuming the screen recording software diminishes the recorded audio, though. Any thoughts?

[@danb2622]

Thanks for this little tutorial. The first option wasn't working for me, but I downloaded Audacity and followed your instructions. The latest version of Audacity is a bit different from what appears in the video, but I was able to get it to work and successfully recorded the audio clip I wanted. Very grateful!

[@iDonzzy]

OMG you should work in Microsoft already! Thanks a bunch, now I can record my God-given golden voice together with karaoke songs to make cover songs! lol

[@KevinStratvert]

Glad I could help! Ha, I used to work at Microsoft and then left to work on KZbin videos 🤣

[@jamesmiller3816]

Would you suggest OBS(Studio) Player as an equal competitor to the previous ones, especially, Audacity?

[@HAL_9000__]

😡 Windows 11 here. Stereo Mix will not record anything on Audacity! I try other microphone devices on Audacity and it does pick up the program audio BUT they all also pick up my voice and any surrounding sound around me. I can’t figure how to turn off this mic that picks up room sounds!

[@pvgr9]

Kevin,can you please make a video on how you edit your videos .

[@redlabel69]

Dang... I chose to install the Audacity recorder from their site and it ended-up putting PDF Converter on my PC. This is my recording studio PC (my DAW doesn't allow recording from apps outside of it), so once I realized that I'd put that adware/malware on my PC I wasn't thrilled. Now I'm trying to remove it completely. :/

[@MaduraiKasiKumaran]

Very useful tips. For small level youtubers, this information has helped very much. Thanks a lot.

[@sgit1]

Once again you have presented a clear and concise video. I went with Audacity. Thank you.

[@RoiratNews]

Watched this video, tried every option. Nothing worked. VB-Audio cable won't install. WTF? I'm trying to record audio only from youtube. I don't want to use a 2nd pc and a patch cable between the microphone on #1 and the speakers on #2.

[@muonkret7817]

Thank you

[@paulahavens2764]

My recording works fine, but as I am recording I cannot hear myself doing the recording. Could you tell me what aI am doing wrong. On windows 11 if this helps

[@markadams8529]

Thank you for posting this! I had no clue there was a voice recorder included. Steps to activate were easy to follow.

[@zabisaboori6301]

Thank you!!!! You are the BEST

[@IamFestoon]

Felt dumb for not knowing this, but this is exactly what I needed. Thank you sir.

[@ShortFormLiFe]

Neither worked sadly. I tried with sound recorder then with Audacity and it just does not pick up the sound of what i am playing on my PC ! Thought maybe its because i had my headset plugged in but nope.

[@Malkiore1]

I have a question. Is there a way to record sound by just adjusting your PC's volume? I would like to be able to record sound using my PC instead of adjusting the sound being recorded by using the volume from KZbin or using a media player if I am playing a movie on my pc. I hope I am explaining this right. Like if I wanted to record something I would just use my keyboard to move the volume to level 75. I do not want to record something and have to adjust the volume on KZbin instead.

[@isthisrealmedia2552]

Love your work Kevin. But in this instance I still have no idea as to how to record my mobile phone call on my pc as your video suggests. Thanx for your fantastic tutorials!

[@errrzarrr]

Problem with Windows "basic" tools it's they are unreliable. They way it looks and feel on my computer could be way different than it is on the tutorial and to get there a lot of steps and wild configurationsb might be needed. Also if you manage to set it up and forget, then an update might come next day or next month and misconfigure it. And you'd have to deal again with a another different look and feel, another set of steps and be completely clueless if some sort of obscure configuration is hidden somewhere.

[@yourhomechannel6414]

Amazing Tutorial Kevin! Keep it up! As usual, I learned a LOT of new things! 😃😄🙂

[@Ryuzaki2100]

Kevin's videos are info-packed. Every second is vital.

[@yourhomechannel6414]

@@Ryuzaki2100 Always! 😃

[@nemnoton]

I have Windows 10 , but there is a "manage sound devices menu", however I don't find this "stereo mix" option.. I also tried the older menu, by clicking the sound button in the old System menu , and under "recording" I find a list, but no Stereo mix option, only microphone options and a line in option..

[@trentsmith1]

For the first option (adding stereo mix as an input and using voice recorder), this worked and is great, but I noticed it only works if the computer speakers are the active output. Is there a way to make this work will monitoring sound from my headphones instead?

[@edytaslomski548]

I can't record audio from my computer (wanted to record audio from a video on facebook). Is it a Mac thing? As an input recording it shows only Built-in microphone and ZoomAudioDevice

[@IrinaMartinez-mz5nj]

I have Windows 11 Home pc and just find out that the Windows option doesn't work when I have my earphones connected. Also, when I try to record my voice through, the PC doesn't record it that loud. What should I do?

[@kimlibera663]

Kev you must slow down. You're racing around the screen & not showing inner connections. I set up all 3 solve-its but am still stuck. How do you obtain one's song list. Using Utube music-how does one get audacity or VC to open a particular song. I.e. how do i save the song to my harddrive from Utube.

[@Alien2799]

I did try your first suggestion before but I did not get the sound. I watched your video and now IT WORKS. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Thank you for such clear explanations too. Some YTers jump around and it is hard to follow.