Recording while playing live!

[Dj Arae]

hey guys, So I am running audacity on vista and i have 2 pioneer cdj 200's hooked up to my stanton m.304 mixer.

When I try to record to my computer while im playing live It doesn't work. I have tried recording out of my booth out, record out and master out on my mixer and the right channel is always quiet. On my mixer i have the pan for channel 3 to the right and the pan for channel 1 to the left and I think this is the problem because I can record fine with both channel pans in the middle.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!

[kozikowski]

You have the Stereo output of the mixer connected to the Mono Microphone Input of the computer, right?

Most Windows laptops don't accept a Stereo audio connection. You might add one of the USB external sound cards to do this.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Koz

[Dj Arae]

No i have it going through a 2 in 2 out soundcard. Behringer uca202.

The mixer is going to the input on the soundcard and the out is too my speakers

[steve]

On my mixer i have the pan for channel 3 to the right and the pan for channel 1 to the left

What's plugged into channel 3 and channel 1?

[Dj Arae]

my CDJ's

[steve]

Why have you got them panned? You say it works OK when they are set to the middle.

[Dj Arae]

It sounds much better when i have it panned because at home i only have one speaker. When the pans are set to middle it doesn't sound great at all

[steve]

You are probably going to have to put up with sub-optimum live sound, or sub-optimum recording until you get your speakers fixed.
You may be able to improve the balance in the recorded track by using the Normalize effect. See here for details: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... =Normalize

[Dj Arae]

Thanks for the susggestion.

My speaker is fine, its just that i only have 1. will the problem disappear once i get another one?