Audacity Forum

I don't suppose you know what my settings should be in midi setup - I'm guessing my problems lie in here.........

Bill, I was fiddling around with things tonight and thought I would try using my work Mac to see if it was the same (still with the tape out set) - it worked fine I was able to control the input volume using the slider at the top, and could get it so that it didn't trip into the read. For the exact ...

billw58 wrote:How are you connecting from the Bryston to the MacBook? Tape out or pre-amp out?

-- Bill

On the back of the Bryston I am going from the sockets marked 'Tape Loop - To' (the other option is 'Tape Loop - From' which doesn't generate anything into the Mac).

In your bottom illustration, you posted the Mac Hardware > Input panel with the volume control all the way down. Those blue dots under the panel are a wide-range volume meter. Where do the dots bounce when you play the music (the last one to the right is overload) and can you make it worse with the...

Sorry, not RGB, but I have a replica of the cables you posted.

When you say 'turn the mac controls' up, what do you mean?

So I have just started out on Audacity and have just done my first needledrop. Problem is that the levels seem to be too high and are tripping into the red. The Wiki site suggests manually setting them, but I don't seem to be able to follow their instructions. I'm running it via a macbook pro connec...