Hello from France
I used to run Audacity on my old HP laptop under w7
Recently bought an Acer Ryzen 7, i wanted to update Aud. I download 3.7 and encouring problem when i record.
Mike level is correct burt when i want to record guitar in another track, sound level is very very low.
Is someone encoured the same ?
Hi,
Can you tell us a bit more about HOW you record the guitar, maybe? Is it an electric guitar plugged into an audio interface or an acoustic and another microphone, for example?
Mark B
Thanks for your answer. I have a mixer Behringer X1222USB connected via usb to the laptop. So, i plug my mike in the mixer, electric or electro-acoustic guitar directly in the mixer but i try with a DI BOX too with same result. I’ve also try to record the guitar via my Vox Tonelab EX USB output. Same result.
Not sure about ASIO4ALL correctly installed, don’t know how to check.
For monitoring during recording, i have a headset plugged in the mixer monitor headset output and guitar level is good in the headset.
Hope that will help you to help me.
Didier
Same result
I’m pretty sure your mixer is “class compliant” so it should be plug-and-play with the Microsoft-supplied drivers. It should work…
Did you select the USB device as your Recording Device? (Don’t select anything that says “loopback”.)
Also check Audacity’s recording volume slider which is now “hidden” under the recording meters (and the playback slider under the playback meters).
ASIO4ALL doesn’t work with Audacity. You don t need it. Audacity doesn’t support ASIO. (ASIO4ALL adapts hardware that doesn’t have proper ASIO drivers. It doesn’t adapt applications.)
Thx, it’s late for me here, i’ll check that tomorrow
This doesn’t concern the problem you described but I thought it might interest you: Fender Studio free DAW
Mark B
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Well, i tried yesterday. Windows parameters are set to USB input and output. Volumes are up to 100.
Audacity slider input is at max, usb input selected, no loopback. Host MME, Quality 48000 hz (as my mixer config)
Mike recording my voice is a bit compressed but i don’t have a really good voice and guitar is awful, low and saturated.
May be a problem with mixer, so, i will retry with the Vox usb output but as the result was the same during last attempt, i’m not very hopeless.
May i try the Fender Daw to discard mixer issue
Some other ideas would to to try something else instead of Audacity. Since you are doing multi-track recording, you could try Waveform Free or Reaper instead. Reaper is not free but many people love it and it allows an indefinite trial period so you can see if you like it.
Mark B
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Yes, i will.
In another way, i’ve notice in the Behringer X1222USB mixer user manual that the mixer is 16 bit, audacity is set as 32 bit floating. May be a clue. Nonetheless, Behringer recommands running ASIO4ALL driver in the user manual. So …
I will dig this two ways and tell to the community if something changes in better.
Thx for your support everybody.
Have a nice WE. It’s a sunny saturday morning in Corsica
PS : Fender Daw doesn’t accept usb as recording source
Just try few minutes with Audacity set in 16 bits and it seems working better. Will try longer tomorrow .
Something else to check - Make sure Windows “enhancements” are turned OFF. It’s one of the most common problems we see here. Some of the settings are for communications and they try to keep spoken voice while blocking-out music and other “noise”. Turning all of them off should give you exactly what’s coming-out of the mixer.
That’s not recommended. The conversion to 32-bit floating point (and back) is lossless and Audacity does its processing on floating-point anyway.
It won’t hurt anything but like I said, Audacity does NOT support ASIO. It doesn’t work with true ASIO drivers or ASIO4ALL.
…If you use REAPER or another full-DAW that supports ASIO, ASIO4ALL will allow your DAW to use your mixer to work like an ASIO device.
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