can t get sound recording mixer open

The Sound Recording Mixer will not open in Vista for Line In recording. I tried installing the drivers for my Soundblaster but still don't get anything. Does anyone have any ideas? I tried double clicking the speaker icon but it doesn't work because it only opens the playing mixer that just has 2 sliders on it for Main and Apps volume. There is no option anywhere for switching to the Recording mixer. Has the Record Mixer been removed because they want the Windows Sound Recorder to be used exclusively now? The problem is the Sound Recorder doesn't record MP3's.

First, ignore the message when posting that the post was unsuccessful. There is something wrong with the newsgroup and if you are using the web browsser, you will get that message, even when message is posted successfully. Second, I think the sound in Vista is still very flaky. I can get some things working some of the time, but not everything works at once. I either have sound for my modem or sound from the mike, not both. I had to uninstall and reinstall drivers several times to even get any response from the mike. I'm on a laptop with Realtek 97 sound, and Vista supposedly installed some drivers, but they were poor. Realtek has some vista beta drivers, but even those aren't very good. I've read that Sound Blaster isn't going to support all its cards in Vista, a poor choice, in my opionion.
Good luck.
"Stevec5000" wrote:

The Sound Recording Mixer will not open in Vista for Line In recording. I tried installing the drivers for my Soundblaster but still don't get anything. Does anyone have any ideas? I tried double clicking the speaker icon but it doesn't work because it only opens the playing mixer that just has 2 sliders on it for Main and Apps volume. There is no option anywhere for switching to the Recording mixer. Has the Record Mixer been removed because they want the Windows Sound Recorder to be used exclusively now? The problem is the Sound Recorder doesn't record MP3's.

Sorry about the multiple posts. It seems to be working again now. I found the solution to the problem, the sound mixer file, sndvol32.exe is missing in Vista. The same thing sometimes happens when updating to XP-SP2. To replace it copy it from a Windows XP machine or unpack it from the CD and paste it into the \system32 folder. More details can be found in this M/S Knowledge base article, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q319095
"Jo" wrote:

First, ignore the message when posting that the post was unsuccessful. There is something wrong with the newsgroup and if you are using the web browsser, you will get that message, even when message is posted successfully. Second, I think the sound in Vista is still very flaky. I can get some things working some of the time, but not everything works at once. I either have sound for my modem or sound from the mike, not both. I had to uninstall and reinstall drivers several times to even get any response from the mike. I'm on a laptop with Realtek 97 sound, and Vista supposedly installed some drivers, but they were poor. Realtek has some vista beta drivers, but even those aren't very good. I've read that Sound Blaster isn't going to support all its cards in Vista, a poor choice, in my opionion.
Good luck.
"Stevec5000" wrote:
The Sound Recording Mixer will not open in Vista for Line In recording. I tried installing the drivers for my Soundblaster but still don't get anything. Does anyone have any ideas? I tried double clicking the speaker icon but it doesn't work because it only opens the playing mixer that just has 2 sliders on it for Main and Apps volume. There is no option anywhere for switching to the Recording mixer. Has the Record Mixer been removed because they want the Windows Sound Recorder to be used exclusively now? The problem is the Sound Recorder doesn't record MP3's.