Audition saying mic not connected, while other audio editing software does.

Question

     Okay, just got the trial version to start with, was originally getting a directsound input error, which thanks to this board I was a
ble to fix with asio4all, and at least I'm not getting constant, persistant errors, and Audition is now allowing me to push the record button.  Definately a step in the right direction.
     However now I've hit a roadblock, at first I thought it was just my mic, but I had the crappy sound recorder on windows vista try and that works perfectly fine, so I know it's not the mic.  In Audio hardware setup it's telling me that the device is there and operating...  And I know it's not a volume thing, as again, tested that out as well.
     And yet Audition doesn't realize there's any input audio at all.  No levels.  Can't for the life of me figure it out.

Answer 1

You've got a two stage process to select the mic in on the Vista OS.
You say you've already selected the appropriate sound device in Audition's Audio Hardware Setup.  However, you also have to right click the little loudspeaker icon in the Task Bar and select "recording devices".  On the menu that comes up you'll have a selection of things to record--make sure the "green tick" is on the mic input you're using.
Hope this helps.
Bob