mad electric noise at 30 seconds

[stueychef]

Hello All,

New to Audacity and overall I love it.

Having a problem, though, while recording from either my pedal board (guitar) or Kawai Digital Piano.

Every time I try to record the piano, it makes it to anywhere between 28-30 seconds, and then it's just terrible electric noise...high decibel stuff.

I am monitoring the CPU usage and it doesn't go over 11% and I am running XP on a Dell Latitude D830.

Help, please!

[kozikowski]

That is a laptop. Without going into the technical specifications, the computer probably does not have a high volume, Stereo Line-In connection on its side. It's much more likely to have a mono Mic-In connection (same type of plug) which will overload in the presence of a hot, stereo signal.

It's possible you have a "real" stereo Line-In and you should look for that in the instructions. If not, you may need one of the high volume, stereo, USB adapters like the UCA 200.

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

Koz

[stueychef]

Thanks. In looking at the UCA 202 or 222, are there cables to connect from a 1/4" audio cable into the UCA or do I also need a mixer?

I am trying to do this on the cheap, as we are single-income with four kids, and my wife is getting concerned with the new interest in music from a financial standpoint

I appreciate your advice.

Cheers

[steve]

A mixer would be nice but to avoid the expense you should be able to get a reasonable recording level from your keyboard by plugging it directly into the UCA 202 with a suitable audio cable. Check to see if your digital piano has outputs marked "Line out", Aux", "Stereo Out" or something similar - if it does, then those are the best outputs to use.

[stueychef]

Thanks to all. I will pick up a USB controller. And yes, the piano has line in/out and AUX and quite a bit more on the back, so I'll be good to go.

Cheers

[kozikowski]

You are not forbidden from using the headphone connection if you can't do it any other way. That's how I did both piano2.wav and organfinale.wav from here...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

Koz