Recording levels! Grrrr!!

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judgment
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Recording levels! Grrrr!!

Post by judgment » Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:30 pm

Hi there!

Just tried recording a vinyl onto audacity and the levels of the recording are waaaaaay too high. i cant find a solution but hopefully one of u geniuses can help me! :). It seems like the input level is too loud but i turned the master on my mixer almost all the way down and there wasnt a single change. confused? i certainly am :?

I have and use:
Technics (direct drive)
Pioneer Mixer
HP laptop (with mini jack microphone input)
Audacity 1.3.10
Mini jack to Phono lead (that goes from the mixer record output to the microphone input on my laptop)

please ask me any questions.

please help!

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Re: Recording levels! Grrrr!!

Post by waxcylinder » Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:08 pm

Have a read of this from the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... iscs_to_CD

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Re: Recording levels! Grrrr!!

Post by kozikowski » Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:07 pm

You can't use Mic-In on your laptop for this. It's expecting a really tiny, weak, mono signal from a microphone.

You can use one of the fine USB External Sound Cards we reviewed.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Koz

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Re: Recording levels! Grrrr!!

Post by judgment » Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:02 pm

Thanx so much guys :) i mean it!

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