Hi Bryan. I am sorry you are having a struggle. Sometimes I also think of taking a hammer to my computer and turning a software problem into a hardware problem!

In the beginning of this journey I used to use an old Yamaha mixer to record (using the line out of the mixer to the microphone jack on my computer). I haven't experienced setting up a USB mixer. Maybe some who knows about how these things work will help. I would guess that it is a driver issue and usually windows is clever enough to download the driver automatically as soon as you plug in a new USB device. But...I am guessing. Lets hope someone else chimes in.

I also find it useful to go into your windows audio settings (right click on the little speaker on the bottom RHS of the screen) and select 'recording devices" and see what windows thinks it is using to record.

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