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Snoopy
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by Snoopy » Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:05 pm
I have a notebook running win 7. I installed Audacity Beta for win 7 and lame_enc.dll for Audacity 1.3.xx
After starting Audacity and connecting my turntable to USB port I pressed the recording button. The sound I
heard was a pain to listen to, way too high.
I pulled down both volumes, in and out... yes I could heare what tune it was ment to be but it was still distorted.
Is there any way to fix this, to decrease the input level?
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steve
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by steve » Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:32 pm
You may need to reduce the recording level to a very low level in the
Windows Control Panel.
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GordonH
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by GordonH » Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:14 pm
I previously ran Audacity on XP and Ubuntu, but on Windows 7 64 bit I have severe level problems. Its not Audacity or the drivers, its something specific within Windows 7. I am tempted to start running a mixer straight into the line input on the sound card or just build a PC solely for audio work with a suitable OS on it.
I am seeing lots of reports of this problem, but there is no replicable and universal solution.
(on XP my input level was normally set at 30% with no external padding, On WIn7 I am at 0.1% with 20dB of attenuator in line and the audio is not as good as previously. My guess is that MS have hard wired some sort of audio processing, maybe the old mic boost, into the microphone input. Its not an audacity or a hardware problem but still frustrating)
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Snoopy
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by Snoopy » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:38 pm
Ok, I have not yet tried to run Audacity on XP and this turntable. I might do that and see what happens.
I will also make a test on a Linux computer.
EDIT: I just made a test on XP, the level is very close to distortion and I can't adjust any of input and output levels.
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steve
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by steve » Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:14 pm
Snoopy wrote:EDIT: I just made a test on XP, the level is very close to distortion and I can't adjust any of input and output levels.
In that case the problem is with the turntable. Windows XP does not add any gain to the signal from USB audio devices, so what you get is what's being sent from the device. If the signal is too hot with XP, then it's because the signal from the turntable is too hot and close to overloading its own analogue to digital converters.
