Anyway, enough ranting. Well, OK, probably more later.Anyway, after much reading, trying cables, settings, voodo and everything else I can think of, I am finally actually getting the music to record in Audacity. The only problem now is that it is so faint, I can barely hear it when I play it back through the PC speakers. I've tried all of the amplification plug-ins I can find, but even when I boost it as much as those will let me, it's still weak and now also distorted. My set up is as follows:
HP Media Center PC, top end, about 2 years old, but with 2Gigs RAM, etc., so sufficient hardware
Have connected the red and white audio cables from my turntable into the AUX In jacks of a small, Denon bookshelf system (no Phono In available)
Have run a patch cord from the Tape Out jacks on the Denon to single, small stereo Line In jack in the back of the PC (tried every other connction possible, and this is the only one that actually gets sound recorded, other than going through the Mic jack which has similar lousy results).
Decent sound is coming out of the speakers hooked up to the Denon when I'm playing the record, so I know I'm OK there, but just can't get the recording volume to anywhere near satisfactory.
So how can I get the thing to record at a higher input level?? I've got every volume setting I can find cranked to the max, and I've tried a hundred different settings and checked everything a thousand times (at least that's what it seems like at this point).
Please help before I chuck the whole set up out the window. Thanks.
