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Alesis DM6 Recording
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:35 pm
by TeenTerror
Hey guys, me and my friend were wanting to do some recording with my Electronic Drumset (Alesis DM6 model), and so I DLed the program, and bought a 3.5mm headphone jack. I plugged that into my headphone jack on my laptop and the output port on the back of my module (As I have seen others do) and it keeps recording through my laptop speakers....not through my drumset. I have no idea what to do, and any suggestions would be most appreciated! Thanks.
Re: Alesis DM6 Recording
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:34 pm
by DVDdoug
I plugged that into my headphone jack on my laptop
Oops... The headphone jack on your laptop is an
output... The signal comes
out (and into your headphones).
You really need a line-input, Most desktop computers have line-in, but
most laptops only have a microphone input (and headphone out). If your computer doesn't have a line-in, or if the input isn't swithable between mic & line, you can
try the mic input. But you might get distortion (because the levels are wrong), and most mic inputs have poor sound quality anyway.
They lowest-cost way of adding a line-input to a laptop is probably the
Behringer UCA202. You can get a USB soundcard, but most of these also only have mic-in and beadphone-out.