Audacity only hears system sounds

Audacity only hears system sounds. It is not capable of receiving microphone input. * In alsamixer, every option is unmuted and set to the maximum. * In PulseAudio Volume Control, the visual indicator clearly corresponds to the audio in my room, indicating that it correctly picks up my microphone. However, Audacity still only picks up sounds that come from other applications. It does not receive any microphone audio. I followed the [Arch Linux Wiki PulseAudio Troubleshooting Guide for Audacity](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Audacity) . * pulseaudio-alsa is installed and configured to work for every application I've tried besides Audacity. * In Audacity, the only microphone selections are pulse and default. Both options only record computer sounds, not any microphone. * In PulseAudio Volume Control, I've tried all 12 permutations of settings from the Input Devices and Configurations tabs. None of these permutations allowed Audacity to pick up sound. * I tried running $ pasuspender -- audacity. This added more options for input devices besides pulse and default, but each option either recorded silence, halted the seeker, or crashed Audacity. I looked through the post on this forum titled [Microphone not showing up in Audacity](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/495407/microphone-not-showing-up-in-audacity) . * Similar to [menfon](https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/317995/menfon) , PulseAudio Volume Control clearly picked up on my microphone and demonstrated that my microphone works. Here is my output from $ amixer --card 0: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 87 Mono: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 87 Mono: Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 87 Mono: Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0 Capabilities: volume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 3 Front Left: 3 [100%] [30.00dB] Front Right: 3 [100%] [30.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Mic Mute-LED Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'On' 'Off' 'Follow Capture' 'Follow Mute' Item0: 'Off' Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 63 Front Left: Capture 63 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 63 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled' Item0: 'Disabled' Simple mixer control 'Digital',0 Capabilities: cvolume Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 120 Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Mute-LED Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'On' 'Off' 'Follow Master' Item0: 'Off' * I saw no parallels in my output that would allow me to use the same solution as [menfon](https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/317995/menfon) . I am using: * A Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 * Arch Linux 5.12.12-arch1-1 * Audacity 2.4.1 * alsa-lib 1.2.5.1-3 * pulseaudio 14.2 * pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.5-2 Press me for any additional information you need. I greatly appreciate the help!