
If this happens then to make a recording without hearing it, you can try the following: However on some devices, turning down either slider may turn down or silence the achieved recording level. This means that if you do not want to hear what you are recording, you can simply turn down either Audacity volume slider.

When the Audacity recording and playback sliders are linked, adjusting either slider will often not affect the level already being recorded.This will often happen if in Audacity you set the (loopback) recording device to the same built-in device as the one selected for playback.

