cant hear what I record

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cant hear what I record

Post by searay » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:52 am

Hi,I have just got an Akai ATT10U usb turntable with Audacity software.Installed it on my pc and its working fine,but I cant hear what I am recording.once the song is exported to my hard disk I can play it.I have marked Software playtrough.Then Hardware playtrough.Still nothing.What is wrong?
Thanks for help.

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Re: cant hear what I record

Post by steve » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:40 pm

The USB interface of a turntable offers a recording device (not a playback device).
To playback from Audacity, you need to select your normal soundcard as the playback device, not the USB turntable ("Edit->Preferences->Audio I/O")

Monitoring the USB turntable is usually done directly from the "phono out" of the turntable (connecting it to a hi-fi amp).
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