Ghosted audio scratch disc in FCE

So I've been FCP and FCE for years. Today I was digitizing material into FCE just fine. Then I switched tapes. No, no matter what I do, I can't capture audio. When checking my scratch disc setup, everything is checked but audio is ghosted which means audio is not being captured. Since FCE doesn't have the editable options that FCP does when it comes to issues like this, I'm limited in what I can do. I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to get the audio to "wake up". The only thing that happened that might have effected this is that the external drive became disconnected during the tape change so it may have messed with the automatic device settings or something. But I've rebooted, closed projects, started new projects, etc but I just can't seem to get the audio up and running. HELP!

Remember that you can't hear audio in FCE whilst capturing.
Have you got View>Video Out>Canvas Playback selected?

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