Lotsa noise, unpredictable spot, USB turntable

[kozikowski]

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The people doing this pretty much have all three strikes in one. The system fails in Mac, it fails in Windows, and you can't get anybody to answer your questions because you don't have either a Mac or a PC.

The object is to get one of the two running perfectly and then gently bring up the other. Not spread the devastation across platforms.

Give it a shot, but there was another poster on the forum that couldn't get either to work. Audacity, at least in this version, has some serious problems with USB audio.

Koz

[yoyodoesvegas]

Thanks Koz i have just changed the the deck to line output and set the sound prefs on the mac to line in and have sucessfully recorded my first album ,cant say for sure if the quality is top as i am still new to this and need to experiment. But how can i get the music to play through the mac? At the moment it only comes out when i click record which is fine but not when cueing up . Have to say thus far i would recommend the STANTON T90 USB the build quality is top although a bit pricey the jury is however out on Audacity 1.2.5 and i cant help feeling a few more visits to the forum will be needed.........

[kozikowski]

You hit all the good ones.

I posted a whole How-To concerning capturing your vinyl with the analog cables. You may not need that any more since yours is already running. Remember the step where you switch the turntable to "Line" instead of "Phono." If there is absolutely no bass in the show, you may have the wrong one.

As far as quality is concerned, remember that all audio used to be this way not that long ago. Also, in the case of analog versus crashes and digital garbage, analog wins.

Playthrough on Macs is problematic, however, you can launch Audacity and click once inside the red record meters. They will wake up without actually starting a recording. That may be as close as you can get to "hearing" the recording.

Koz

[yoyodoesvegas]

Thanks again Koz clicked as you said and at last i can cue up all those old punk records (bad sound quality on recordings only ads to the anarchy!) so for now i am a happy bunny ....cheers!

[emanresu]

HI all, first time so sorry if already posted, having huge problems with my mac as described, just got boot camp with mac leopard to run windows and installed windows Xp, seems to work OK now ???

Anyone else don this ?

cheers

rich

[Biz]

So far, it doesn't seem like anyone is having the same problem as I am. I'm using a Stanton T.90 and Audacity 12.5 (for Mac OS X with intel). Right when I plug the USB cable into my Mac, I get this high feedback/white noise sound. This sound remains constant before, during and after recording. It only stops when I disconnect the USB cable fron the Mac. This sound is also on the recordings. Any thoughts on how I can get rid of this noise?

Biz

[kozikowski]

<<<it doesn't seem like anyone is having the same problem as I am>>>

Unreliable, unstable, unpredictable USB? Nobody here with that problem.

Maybe, but y'all have the same solution. Stop using the USB services and go analog.

http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 8840#p8840

But all seriousness aside, the audio coder inside the turntables use the power from the computer. If there's something wrong with either the turntable or the computer, the power supply will either start screaming or fail (they normally work at a pitch only dogs can hear).

Some people have gotten out of trouble with a USB hub that gets its power from a brick in the wall. Put that between the turntable and the computer.

Koz

[mspinks]

hello, I've been reading a lot about these static issues with Audacity. Most people seem to think that the problem lies with the ion usb devices. While this may be possible I have some interesting information to share with anyone interested in solving this problem. The device I am using a fairly high quality yamaha mixer with a usb output. I have been using this mixer with my windows computer for a very long time with absolutely no problems. The software I use is Cakewalk Sonar 6. Recently, my music professor asked to borrow my mixer and microphone to make some recordings. We used his macbook with Audacity 1.2.5. The static appears at random intervals during the playback of the recording. I tried replacing the cables with no success. I've monitored the recordings using headphones and heard no static during the recording process, but there is still static during playback. I've upgraded the usb cable with no success and also made sure there was no interference from any wireless devices in the area. During our next recording session I am going to record analog onto his macbook and record digitally on my windows machine simultaneously using the same version of Audacity on both. I will post again when I've determined some more info. I believe I've narrowed the problem down to either the computer or the Audacity software. I am almost certain the problem does not exist in the peripherals attached to the computer. I hope this sheds some light on the subject.