Hello there, people. =]
I just had a question about recording things: how do I do "internal recording"? As in, I record something playing on my computer rather than from an external source.

If it makes any difference, I'm using a laptop.. ^o.o^

Thank you!

Hi there crimsoncrow, welcome to itsallpc

It’s very simple to record internally: simply select the correct recording input from the volume control panel. The common way to do this is to open the volume control panel, by either double clicking on the speaker icon in the system tray (may not be visible, depending on your sound controller), or clicking Start, Run and entering sndvol32

Click Options and Properties.



Change the selection from Playback to Recording.



Then select the source you want to record from. Internal sources include Wave, Midi etc, but can have interesting names depending on your sound card drivers.



Once you’ve selected one, just use your favourite sound editor to record from that source. Bare in mind though, that recording this way represents a loss in quality, especially in the case of integrated audio controllers, such as those in notebooks and on motherboards. The reason for this is the audio signal is being converted from digital to analogue and back again. The quality of the signal processor (in the case of integrated audio, there probably isn’t a signal processor, just an audio codec) will multiply any imperfections, especially if any sample rate conversion has to be done.

But hey, you may well not even notice unless you know what to listen for :P

Fwee! Thank you very much for the help!

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