[SOLVED] External mic sounds better on stereo mix

xdjonathan8d

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So I got an external mic (NW-700) and when recording with it in audacity the audio quality is astoundingly better when I record with "stereo mix" as the default instead of "microphone". The problem is I don't want to record with stereo mix because it outputs everything the computer is playing into one audio track. Please help!! Thank you.

Here are the examples (using Realtek HD Audio) btw

Dropbox link to recording with "microphone" set as default: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1kf85i2fgiutq3w/bad.mp3?dl=0

Dropbox link to recording with "stereo mix" set as default: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ex6u5ncijnr58tb/good.mp3?dl=0