how to use virtual audio cable to speakers

If you like to dig deep into the plumbing, there’s enough theory, principles, background, associated content, and practices in the Help Guide to satisfy and bemuse. Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) has a reputation for being a tough program to learn and use. I’ve read complaints ranging from disappointment over no longer being able to do karaoke with a newly purchased laptop, annoyance at not being able to do advertising voice-overs, to some real ire at not being able to perform audio mixing and recording by a church music director.

I think the manufacturers really had no idea how much they’d aggravate a whole swath of their users with this policy. On my particular ThinkPad, it can be enabled somewhat by a registry hack, but you have to disable the onboard microphone in order to use stereo mix, so it’s not a great fix. A lot of discussion can be found online about it. Recently some manufacturers of notebook computers, particularly those produced or based in China, have been shipping laptops with the stereo mix feature disabled in firmware.

How to use virtual audio cable to speakers