Hi all
I am a newbie to audacity. I have searched the forum but cannot find a solution to my problem. I am recording a Dj mix from the out phono on my Allen & heath zone mixer to mini jack into the mix socket on my windows 10 pc.
The mix records fine but there is no bass to it.
Any suggestions as the rest of it sounds fine.
Thanks in advance!
The problem is likely to be due to the built-in sound card in your laptop. Stock sound cards are usually adequate for casual listening, and somewhere between poor and total trash for recording. I use a Behringer UCA 202 for recording - for about $25, it is massively better than my laptop’s built-in sound card.
That’s a strange problem.
I am recording a Dj mix from the out phono on my Allen & heath zone mixer
Have you checked the output form the mixer with the same speakers and same setup you have plugged into the computer… i.e. Bypassing the computer?
to mini jack into the mix socket on my windows 10 pc.
There is no “mix socket” on a soundcard. I assume you have a desktop computer with “regular soundcard connections”? You should be using the line-input (color coded blue). Laptops don’t have line-in.
The mix records fine but there is no bass to it.
Any suggestions as the rest of it sounds fine.
There are ways that a bad connection or misconnection can give you “vocal removal” effect. That removes all of the “center” information and that includes the bass, but you should also notice the loss of vocals. The easiest way to check that is to pan fully-left and/or fully-right on the mixer (or you can just unplug the left or right inputs). Check to see if the recording gets panned and if the bass comes-back when you’ve only got one channel.
Some do. My laptop has a line level input, and then relies on digital gain to boost the signal from a microphone (so microphone recording is truly awful quality).