Audacity Forum

is it actually possible to record from MD (in audacity) with Line In optical on MD? shouldn't MD have Line Out optical?

can't work it out. I bought external soundcard. there's also optical in and optical out besides line in/out( which works ok talking about hooking it all up, using audacity) I'd love to record through optical. what should I do? so if MD has Line In should I plug in cable on my soundcard to Line In as...

Yog-Sothoth wrote:To simplify things, you could purchase two of these and two of these.

cheers.

so you mean I can use that mono adapter to my mic in input, run those two cables to my MD through that mono/stereo adapter again. and I don't need external sound card?

cheers.

thanks!!!

what actually means optical? what's the difference between optical cable and normal cable (with jack)? Yes exactly - the optical "cable" is a fibre-optic bundle rather than wires. The terminations can either be mini-jack 2.5mm or TOSlink - or one of each. What you need depends on the soundcard that...

waxcylinder wrote:If you are recording from MD try finding an external souncard that has optical input - I personally use the Edirol UA-1EX this way with good results.

WC

what actually means optical? what's the difference between optical cable and normal cable (with jack)?

thanks very much for you answer!!!!

appreciate it!

what the.... Hallo. So I have set up Recoding devices and Playback devices in Vista, where by the way I have ONLY 2 options (yeah, I ticked option Show Disabled and Disconnected devices) in Recording Devices: Microphone and Wave out Mix (what's Wave Out Mix?). I did set up peferences in Audacity acc...

I've managed to get the signal from the MD into the computer (after updating sound driver), but the sound is total shit. I don't understand. There must be something with vista and it's sound drivers.

Hallo. I bought a new computer, coz my old one retired. It's with stoopid vista. I used to run this great program (audacity) in windows XP on my old computer, especially for transfering and editing live gigs I'm recording. Downloaded audacity to my new computer and experiencing problem I never had. ...