BouncingCzech
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Hi I'm trying to record my mates electric kit, he's got a fairly decent Roland. We just tried it, plugging a 1/8" jack straight in to my laptop.
We had some success but when he starts going heavy on the drums and getting fast the results are just... well bizarre. There's distortion, the timing is all wrong.
Software wise I have tried Audacity and the standard Microsoft Sound Recorder and both seem to have similar problems. I don't know whether I can just change the settings in Audacity to deliver a lower quality sound perhaps?
But it does seem like my sound card in my laptop just can't keep up when you give it that much input.
I do have a proper home PC with a beefy soundcard in, I'm hoping that if I plug the kit in to that we'll have no problems at all as its a proper Creative Soundblaster not an on-board thing like my laptop.
But could anybody confirm or deny this?
BC,
We had some success but when he starts going heavy on the drums and getting fast the results are just... well bizarre. There's distortion, the timing is all wrong.
Software wise I have tried Audacity and the standard Microsoft Sound Recorder and both seem to have similar problems. I don't know whether I can just change the settings in Audacity to deliver a lower quality sound perhaps?
But it does seem like my sound card in my laptop just can't keep up when you give it that much input.
I do have a proper home PC with a beefy soundcard in, I'm hoping that if I plug the kit in to that we'll have no problems at all as its a proper Creative Soundblaster not an on-board thing like my laptop.
But could anybody confirm or deny this?
BC,