Recording with Windows 7 . . .

I saw a thread a while back where you could record in XP by just using What You Hear  in the Recording Mixer. I did that for a long time, but I've just upgraded to Windows 7 and I can't find any way to record, well, what I hear. What's everyone using to do this with CEP2?

[upgraded to Windows 7]

I've just upgraded to Windows 7 and I can't find any way to record, well, what I hear.

I think that you may well find that this has a lot to do with Microsoft, the sound hardware manufacturers (who provide the drivers) and the RIAA, and an attempt to prevent what they regard as illicit recording of copyright material. I'm not saying that there aren't ways around it, but I think it's done like this to prevent casual users at least from doing what you want to. And this doesn't do anything at all for the legitimate users either, which is a bit of a pain.

So you call that an 'upgrade', do you? Can't see it like that myself.

Interesting to see if anybody has found a workaround, but I have to say that there have been a lot of complaints (certainly on the Adobe U2U) about this, and precious few solutions, other than the obvious one...

Several of the options are hidden in Win 7 Sound mixer pages. Open the sound settings page by right clicking on the loudspeaker icon in the task bar. You can then right click in the white space in the Recording mixer to see any hidden inputs which you may then be able to enable.

Yes, there was something hidden and I enabled it, and I did record a test project off of YouTube, so technically I've got something. My usual trip to Options<Windows Recording Mixer gives me an error of " mixer program sndvol32/r " can't be found.

Lately I've been going the cheap & dirty route by recording on my H4n out of the headphone jack. Oh well.

Steve, the only reason I "upgraded" was because my C drive died on my desktop, and I thought having a laptop would be easier to work with, too.

Steve, the only reason I "upgraded" was because my C drive died on my desktop, and I thought having a laptop would be easier to work with, too.

Laptops are a bit of a mixed blessing - as you'll discover whenever it goes wrong...

I've only managed to use a laptop with any degree of confidence when I've been able to back up work remotely in parallel with it, or on an external drive. In fact the external drive solution works quite well. So basically, assume the worst and plan for that; hopefully it won't happen.

Yes, there was something hidden and I enabled it, and I did record a test project off of YouTube, so technically I've got something. My usual trip to Options<Windows Recording Mixer gives me an error of " mixer program sndvol32/r " can't be found.

This is a different problem caused by Microsoft changing their mixer application and its name. I suggest that you go through Windows Control Panel to access the mixer. Then try ryclark's suggestion.

Steve, the only reason I "upgraded" was because my C drive died on my desktop, and I thought having a laptop would be easier to work with, too.

I have almost lost count of the number of people I know who have done this, and most of them do actually find the laptop approach gives them flexibility.
I believe, based on my experience, that some of the standard chipsets used in laptops are inherently flawed, especially when used with Windows 7, so you do have to be prepared to work around any problems.

An example of a flaw would be the way that so many users find that they can't run wireless networking at the same time as usb audio devices without getting audio clicks. On a desktop, you can often poke around in the bios to solve this; in a laptop the bios is usually very, very inflexible.

But all the laptops I've used (mostly Dell corporate range ones, admittedly) have a switch or a function key to turn the wireless off without even going to the BIOS.  And you can also disable the Windows driver in the network properties.

Paul