need computer help. audio related

[varunkapahi]

the problem am facing is like this:
i often plug in my bass into the mic-in jack and record it on audacity or the windows sound recorder and i often do this while there is a song or track playing along on the same computer on another software. now earlier it used to just record whatever was plugged into the mic-in (the bass) but now it records whatever is being played or say even if there is an error notification or anything its warning sound is also recorded.

even if i have nothing plugged in the mic-in jack and there is a song playing on youtube and i hit the record button on the windows sound recorder,nuendo, audacity, etc this stupid computer starts recording the sound from the youtube clip!
it never used to happen sometime back but now i cant fix it.
i have tried re-installing the sound driver and tried and re-installed many recording software, nothing fixed it. do you know how can i fix this? any help would be awesome!

[MCBTunes]

I've never used audacity so all I can comment on there is maybe take a look under options to see if you can set what is being recorded. For windows recorder try going Edit -> Preferences and setting your input.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

It will differ depending on your soundcard.

What you need to do is go into the volume control (speaker icon on the bottom right of the screen (in XP). And have a look around in there. There should be a way to select what inputs or sources your PC is recording. Theres a way to make it record just what is coming from the input.

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by MCBTunes

I've never used audacity so all I can comment on there is maybe take a look under options to see if you can set what is being recorded. For windows recorder try going Edit -> Preferences and setting your input.

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

It will differ depending on your soundcard.

What you need to do is go into the volume control (speaker icon on the bottom right of the screen (in XP). And have a look around in there. There should be a way to select what inputs or sources your PC is recording. Theres a way to make it record just what is coming from the input.

dang! i was so dumb all this time! i was choosing the playback channel for recording by adding the microphone category to the playback channel so it was naturally recording the playback too!
i figured if i use the recording channel and select the microphone, it doesn't record the playback! woah

thanks!