Recording using Serato scratch live

Audacity 3 Help Forum macOS
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Hello,

Newbie to Audacity plus IT is pretty alien to me so excuse my basic grasp of all things technical. I’m using Audacity to record from Serato scratch live & turntables, through a MacBook, I’m also using a griffin iMic splitter - mixer to MacBook.

I appear to have the correct set up, ie sound coming from both channels when I pay vinyl. When in Audacity, start monitoring, the left channel kicks into life but the right channel only moves 50% of the way. Once I start to record, only the left channel shows sound.
In preferences, stereo is showing (not mono)
In the audio track, the drop down menu clearly shows left channel, but makes no difference when I hit split channel

I suspect its something basic I’m doing wrong, but unable to fathom what it is. Help!

Thanks,
Jason

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The iMic has (had) the ability to switch between Microphone-In and Stereo Line-In. If you get that switch wrong, you may get Mono or Left-only.

Koz

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The iMic is switched to line, I have tried both to be honest with no difference.

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Are you using an RCA to 3.5 mm cable like this https://mycablemart.com/store/images/products/1806_small.jpg and are you coming out of the Secondary Master Output or Booth Output of the mixer? I don’t know much about this but Serato say that is what you should do.


Gale

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Hi,

Yes, direct from mixer ‘record’ into iMic, using RCA to 3.5.

Jason

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The iMic is switched to line, I have tried both to be honest with no difference.

I’m not an iMic fan. I tried one and the performance was so awful I put it in a box in the garage.

I own two of these and I like them very much. They are high quality stereo interfaces, both directions.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UCA202

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That’s all they do. They don’t have a microphone interface like the iMic.

I have no idea if this is what the problem is, but if somebody had a gun and said I had to solve this, I think this is the first place I’d look.

Koz

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Just to cover straight equipment failure, What’s the possibility of changing the cable? That would be cheaper than changing the interface. I can’t think of an easy way to test it at home. Usually, I can come up with a way to cross sound systems to check things like this.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/earBudsRCA.jpg

But not with your problem. Sorry.

Koz

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I tried swapping the cable but no change. I’ll try an iMic alternative as suggested. Fingers crossed!

Appreciate your assistance.

Thanks,
Jason