this is what my recording devices thing looks like, I want to be able to record sound on it so i need to know where to get the sound mix thing anyone know what to do?
Do you have a microphone plugged into one of the MIC jacks or the Line-in jack?
I've had the same problem as you before, and even though it showed them as 'not plugged in' you could fix it by right clicking all of them and selecting 'disable'.
After you've disabled all of them enalbe the one that the microphone is plugged into and it should show up as working.