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Sorry was out of town for a day.

kozikowski wrote:Back from the first post:

Started recording streaming audio through Stereo Mix and everything seemed to record fine.

Describe that capture system. In detail. Stereo-Mix shovels everything on the computer into the recording unless you stop it. People frequently complain that the dog barking goes into the recording along with the music because the live microphone gets left on by accident. Is that computer part of a larger theater sound or production system?
Koz

This is just a simple ASUS laptop that is not hooked up to anything at time of recording and most times not hooked up to anything. It is at times for watching streaming movies hooked up via HDMI to my Sony TV which is then hooked up via optical cable to the Sony 2.1 sound bar. Before the sound bar it was hooked up directly to my ONKYO 5.1 surround sound system via HDMI for watching the streaming movies. I will go in and make sure the output and other custom settings aren't weird. The laptop is advertised to have a "sub-woofer." It's just a tiny speaker on the bottom, maybe that is it.

Tim: copyright protection may be it too. I do have a desktop and I will look for a 1/8 male to male cable to try your test. Here is what I plan on trying tonight. From the laptop ill try to determine any weird mixer settings or processor effects or what not. I will try to stream from IE and FireFox as well from my laptop, and will also try a few different streaming sources. I'll also try to record all these ways on the desktop by itself and see what it does. The desktop has a lot better on board sound card that outputs 5.1 or maybe even 7.1 surround. I'll see how that system acts. I'll also try burning these to a cd and test again in my car with my sub. I'll post again tonight.

The laptop is advertised to have a "sub-woofer." It's just a tiny speaker on the bottom, maybe that is it.

Bingo. Too Much Technology. To get Stereo Mix to work the computer generally sends the sound out to the soundcard which in your case thoughtfully trips off the bass. Then the sound comes back in on the recording channels to be recorded.

You might be able to stop it from doing that in settings, use Line-In and Line-Out loopback cables if the computer has those connections, or use an external soundcard.

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I think I'm missing one other....

Koz

OK, yeah, hopefully since the desktop doesn't have this "sub-woofer" it will work. I was going to update where I was so far, I tried streaming through FireFox and that didn't help but i did find out it plays using FlashPlayer. I also messed with the settings some and the current setup actually has more more bass, I can hear the subwoofer trying to barely work, but still not the way it should be. But figured I'd let you guys pick apart these settings while I move on to the desktop. I can't find a 1/8" male to male cable though to do the in line level hook up. I may have to purchase one of those or that bypass device koz put above.

Well I went upstairs and recorded the same streaming audio the same way I was on my laptop but this time on my desktop. I then played it back and it sounded awesome and had BASS. I do have a Logitech 5.1 surround sound system on that PC but only had 2.1 actually plugged in. I moved it to my laptop and it sounded good, then hooked the laptop up to the TV/Sony 2.1 sound bar and it sounded great with bass coming from the sub-woofer. I then burnt it and played it in the car and again, awesome sounding with bass from the sub-woofer. Not sure what the difference is from the laptop to the PC but it works and I guess that is what I am looking for. Thanks for the help everyone, if we can figure out how to get the laptop to work that would be a plus but with one working it is definitely nothing we need to invest a lot of time in to.

Since the laptop has a sub-woofer, the default soundcard settings are designed to accommodate it. Since that's the pathway that Stereo-Mix has to take and Stereo-Mix has no provision for a bass channel that's where the bass went. I've never met a laptop system like that, so you're on your own to figure out how to make it behave.

I'm a Mac elf.

Koz

On my Windows 7 laptop (I'm a Windows Elf) there is an app that came with the onboard soundcard which "helpfully" adds special sound services to make the PC audio "sound better".

I had to turn off all those "helpful services" to get proper straightforward recording of streaming audio

You should be able to find such stuff by carefully digging around in Control Panel>Sound (my "enhancer" is called "SRS Premium Sound" the soundcard is a Realtek).

WC

Yeah, this "sub-woofer" on the bottom of the laptop is maybe a half inch sub-woofer that really does nothing, just a sales gimmick as it's not any better than any regular speaker in my opinion. WC, I will try to find those custom sound settings in the control panel, hopefully that will do the trick otherwise I guess I just have to use the desktop.

Thanks for the help everyone, I guess at this point we can consider this resolved.

. I finally made a cd the other day mixing in other mp3s not recorded by me with the ones I recorded.

How exactly did you do this ?

jared-smith wrote:

. I finally made a cd the other day mixing in other mp3s not recorded by me with the ones I recorded.

How exactly did you do this ?

Not sure it matters any more but I made the cd but inserting a blank cd, choosing to create audio cd on the pop up, then dragged all my mp3s over to the cd drive in windows explorer from another windows explorer window. Right clicked on my drive, said to burn as data cd to keep them as mp3s, then i believe windows opened up windows media player to due the burning.

That what you needed?

I think you are urged to be very clear that you didn't make an Audio CD®. You made a Data CD which will play on any computer, but probably not older stand-alone CD players or the player in your moms Buick.

Or the player in Lori (my lorry).

Koz