No Stereo Mix/Wave Out recording option on Gateway MT6821 with Vista pre-installed

Originally Posted by midimykeys

I have exhausted every attempt to get some kind of resolution to this problem. I make music for soundtracks utilizing virtual pianos and sound generator programs. While the purchase of this Gateway MT6821 notebook was specifically for these purposes, I am unable to record any sound that the computer generates (sound generating program and recording program open at the same time). The reason for this is simple: no "stereo mix" or "wave out" option appears in the "recording" tab in "sounds". I checked "show disabled devices" and "show disconnected devices" and there is still nothing. To make things worse, I called Gateway, Microsoft, and Gateway again. No help or knowledge was available. I went back to the store where I made my purchase, and found that not one Gateway laptop had this feature (all the Toshibas did). Gateway said that there is no update for my soundcard. I'm really stuck here, I can't take my computer back because I waited too long to open it, assuming the sound properties worked as they did on my other Gateway and HP both running XP. Temporarily, I rigged my headphone and mic jack, but the quality needed is not present. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Originally Posted by mtimenova

With DELL INSPIRON 1300 and VISTA ULTIMATE you can install the LG Notebook SigmaTel Sound Driver FOR WINDOWS XP and enjoy STEREO MIX without problem.

Originally Posted by Ezradv

Well I don't know if this applies to Vista but here is how I solved the problem with my XP installation on an IBM that had no Stereo Mix on the record side, only Mic in. Basically the software (driver) is built to do everything including Stereo Mix. They are all that way. Well most of them are as it's much easier to design a driver to do everything and then disable functions in a config file. Redesigning a driver is very expensive. Disabling the Stereo Mix is a requirement that is artificially imposed so you don't capture (stea) audio streams. For my particular driver which is a SoundMax driver (used im many PCs) the process should be very similar so this should work for most Laptops, Again I'm using IBM as an example. I went to the IBM/Lenovo site and redownloaded the driver. I saved the driver I ran the .exe file and it extracted files into the C:\\DRIVERS\\WIN\\Audio directory and 6 sub directories look in the C:\\DRIVERS\\WIN\\Audio\\SMAXWDM\\W2K_XP directory look for a file named ADIHDAUD.inf file and double click on it to open it in Notepad. This file dictactes how your audio driver is installed. part of the instructions in this file tell the installation to DISABLE stereo out. Lets change that Be careful not to change anything in this file that you don't want to. Look at line #270 of the text file (or you can also just use the find feature in notepad and search for "disable")and you will find an entry: HKR,AD1984\\\\Disable, OutR, 1, 01 ;; Disable Stereo Mix Capture Node Change that to HKR,AD1984\\\\Disable, OutR, 1, 00 ;; Disable Stereo Mix Capture Node By changing that 1 to a 0 you are now going to have an install that installs Stereo Mix Save the file Uninstall the sound driver (requires reboot). when you reboot is will say windows found the sound card. Hit cancel. Install the new driver from running setup.exe from the C:\\DRIVERS\\WIN\\Audio directory. reboot I had to then run the setup again. Not sure why but I did. Reboot. You are done. I've done this on my gateway too and it worked. There is a bunch of other stuff disabled in that .INF file but I didn't mess with that. Good Luck

Originally Posted by qhn

this might or might not work . right click on the speaker icon . -> "Recording Devices" . select "Recording" tab . right click and select "Show Disabled Devices" u should (hopefully) see the stereo mix/wave hidden options cheers ...

Originally Posted by generalsu

The stereo mix does appear on my recording mixer tab. ../QUOTE] u have no "Show Disabled Devices" option under this tab? cheers ...

Originally Posted by generalsu

I don't see any "Show Disabled Devices" anywhere when I left click or right click.

Originally Posted by generalsu

When I try to record in stereo mix, there's absolutely no sound.

Originally Posted by generalsu

This Soundmax HD is worse compared to the older AC97 integrated sound card.

Originally Posted by qhn

bad news i u have no stereo mix option, why would u insist on recording with it???? so do u or do u not have a stereo mix option?? i doubt it, just because u do not have the OPTION in stereo mix, does not mean that one card is worst than the other most manufacturers hide or disable this option in compliance with drm dingy, we all try to look for a workaround, but until they heard enough from end.users, we all have to wait give us more info on ur comp and steps, share with us ur trying so far, and see cheers ...

Originally Posted by qhn

found this http://www.sltstudios.net/node/11 want to give it a shot? cheers ...

Originally Posted by generalsu

OK, here's the specs of my machine: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Lenovo Thinkpad T61p Using Soundmax HD Audio When I installed the Soundmax HD audio driver, all i can see in the recording control window is the microphone recording input. At this point, no stereo mix. I read Ezradv's post and decided to try his solution. After that, I got the stereo mix option to show on the recording control window. So I selected it, assuming everything works fine. I did several tests to record from stereo mix using Audacity, but all tests resulted in silence. Even when I play Youtube videos and mp3s, audacity's stereo mix recording would always come out as silent. Right now I have no idea whether this requires a registry hack, or further editing the ADIHDAUD.INF file. I did my own research and realized that a lot of people who bought new laptops recent experienced the same problem, but it seems like there's still no solution for it. I did my search on google, yahoo, msn, live.com, and such, and there's absolutely no solution, just plenty of complaints. I can't believe the RIAA and Microsoft think they can limit the new laptop to prevent people from recording their own sound system. If that's the case, they might as well limit my Ethernet adapter from a 1 gbit to a 1 kbit to prevent people from downloading music.

Originally Posted by Rick808

I am also attempting to use stereo-mix on a new Lenovo T61 with Sigmatel HD Audio and VISTA. I could not get stereo-mix to appear (even with the much-vaunted show disabled, show disconnected), Then I tried the driver inf file tweak recommended by Ezradv's post. Very nice. NOW I SEE STEREO-MIX WITH VISTA! However, like generalsu above, it does NOT PROVIDE ANY SOUND. Tragic. I have only tried it with Audacity. I made sure the Stereo Mix level was at max. (Vista control panel--> sound--> recording--> right-click on Stereo mix --> properties --> levels). No sound. I suspect there is some other setting somewhere that sends sound to stereo mix. Hmmmm. Any other ideas?

Originally Posted by Crespire

I haven't been able to find any other leads on Google. Maybe take another look at that INF? I really have no idea what all of it means, so someone more knowledgeable would probably be better to assign the task to.