Recording Vinyl into Audacity Help

[hjm1293]

My setup is a Kam BDX900 USB turntable and a Dell Inspiron with SRS Premium Sound with Reason 7.

I've also used the turntable on my home PC and it works fine when recording vinyl into audacity.

I've been trying to get it working with the laptop, but when i record, the audio comes out incredibly loud and distorted, as if there's way too much gain. But i don't have a clue how to change any of this. I've tried altering the volume settings in the control panel and in audacity, but nothing has changed the problem.

Does anyone have an idea how i can sort this? Desperate to get some of my vinyl onto the laptop. Much thanks.

[waxcylinder]

Most laptops tend to have only a MIC input and not a Line-in input. A mic input is expecting a much lower sound level than line-level. So if you are feeding the signal into a mic input then that is likely to be the cause of your over-hot signal.

If you do have only a mic in - then you are a candidate for one of the soundcards that we know work well with Audacity, see: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

WC