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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!

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

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

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.

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

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