Losing One Key Instrument in Recording

[prosser99]

hi - I'm trying to record the Allman Bros from vinyl. They had two great guitar players they split up in the mix. One would be on the left and one on the right. I'm getting only about %50 of one of the guitar parts. It seems like I can hear everybody else in the band. Its happening on other records to. There will be one instrument that sounds like a ghost of itself when I record. I am getting two, stereo tracks when I record. The the gain is equal. I tried to check the system balancing and couldn't find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks Prosser99

[kozikowski]

Do you have the red and white sound cables from your turntable plugged into the Mic-In of your computer? If not, what kind of turntable or music system do you have and exactly how is it connected? Model numbers are good.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

See my reply in your other thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 15&t=23975

BTW it would have been much better not to have double-posted the same problem in two different treads - for a start it risks fragmentation of the resposnses - and what's more it drives the forum elves mad as it wastes their time

WC

[prosser99]

Koz - first off, thanks for responding. My red and white cables are not plugged into my laptop. They're plugged into my sound card. I have a usb turntable going into a sound card (uca202) into my laptop (acer aspire. 3 gig ram, 160 gig hard drive.) Prosser99

Do you have the red and white sound cables from your turntable plugged into the Mic-In of your computer? If not, what kind of turntable or music system do you have and exactly how is it connected? Model numbers are good.

Koz

[prosser99]

WC - It worked! On the other thread some one suggested to go the tutorial for USB turntables. In that it suggested to chose stereo in Control Panel/Sound/recording. It worked beautifully. Now I can hear Dwayne Allman screaming his slide solos. So Cool.

Sorry about posting the same problem in two areas. I won't do that again. You guys administer this forum real well.

I just got one more question. Do you have any tips on using the equalization? I want to get better mid range and highs.

Otherwise, this software is a great product. When you had in amplify and bass boost and use the WAV format, the files do get big. No matter. I'll just
buy more cd's. The sound is excellent! Thanks! Prosser99

See my reply in your other thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 15&t=23975

BTW it would have been much better not to have double-posted the same problem in two different treads - for a start it risks fragmentation of the resposnses - and what's more it drives the forum elves mad as it wastes their time

WC

[Irish]

Do you have any tips on using the equalization?

See this page from the manual:

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... ualization

PO'L

[prosser99]

Now that I"m getting the hang of it, this software is great. And so is the support. The support is a succinct and timely. Prosser99

Do you have any tips on using the equalization?

See this page from the manual:

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... ualization

PO'L

[prosser99]

Another question. What are the ranges for mid range exactly? Any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Prosser99

Now that I"m getting the hang of it, this software is great. And so is the support. The support is a succinct and timely. Prosser99

Do you have any tips on using the equalization?

See this page from the manual:

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... ualization

PO'L

[steve]

What are the ranges for mid range exactly?

There isn't an "exact" answer.
The middle of "mid range" is usually taken as being somewhere around 1kHz (1000Hz).
Try generating a Sine tone at 1000Hz from the Generate menu at 1000Hz so that you can hear what this sounds like. (try this with other frequencies as well).

"Mid range" is from "a bit" below this to "a bit" above it.

In common language, people talk about "bass" and "treble". Bass is low frequencies, treble is high frequencies.
When we start manipulating sounds, we soon get to a point where we want a finer distinction, so we add the term "Mid" to refer to frequencies that are not exactly low, and not exactly high, but somewhere in the middle.

A bit further down the line, we want our descriptions to be still more precise, and that is when we start talking about "frequencies". Someone may then say "I want to push up the response from 1.5kHz to 4kHz, peaking to +6dB at 2kHz". This would be difficult to describe in layman's terms, but would be approximately, "give it some boost to the treble - not high treble, low treble".

[prosser99]

Ok Stevethefiddle. I'll start at 1000 for the mid and try different settings. Thanks for you and all your collegues help. You guys have great support. And software without good support isn't worth much. Prosser99

What are the ranges for mid range exactly?

There isn't an "exact" answer.
The middle of "mid range" is usually taken as being somewhere around 1kHz (1000Hz).
Try generating a Sine tone at 1000Hz from the Generate menu at 1000Hz so that you can hear what this sounds like. (try this with other frequencies as well).

"Mid range" is from "a bit" below this to "a bit" above it.

In common language, people talk about "bass" and "treble". Bass is low frequencies, treble is high frequencies.
When we start manipulating sounds, we soon get to a point where we want a finer distinction, so we add the term "Mid" to refer to frequencies that are not exactly low, and not exactly high, but somewhere in the middle.

A bit further down the line, we want our descriptions to be still more precise, and that is when we start talking about "frequencies". Someone may then say "I want to push up the response from 1.5kHz to 4kHz, peaking to +6dB at 2kHz". This would be difficult to describe in layman's terms, but would be approximately, "give it some boost to the treble - not high treble, low treble".