Sound quality

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michal
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Sound quality

Post by michal » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:05 am

Hi,

Im new to audacity and I apologize if this is a stupid question or its a repost, but iv been trying to solve this on my own without much luck even tho i know its probably something simple. Anyway I recently downloaded Audacity in order to record mixes from my mixer. I have my mac book pro hooked up with DJ software (torq connectiv), to two CDJ 200's and a Numark 5000 mixer. I have been able to record in Audacity, however the sound quality is very poor, and does not get any better when I export the file to itunes.

Any help on increasing the sound quality would be very much appreciated, I know im a newb but really need to figure this out!

THANKS
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kozikowski
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Re: Sound quality

Post by kozikowski » Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:22 am

Without digging through all the web pages looking, how does the torq connectiv connect to the Mac? USB? Analog?

Whatever it is, you need to select it in...

Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input.

Restart Audacity and you may need to select the same thing in Audacity > Preferences > Audio I/O.
Restart Audacity again.

People who say the words you did usually got stuck recording from the built-in Mac microphone, not the sound mixer electrical input.

Koz
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