Recording sound from my laptops in built speakers

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So the laptop I am using now which is a HP something or other; when I play the stereo system full blast from my van and record to my laptop at the same time and then play it back from my laptop; I can hardly hear it and for what I can hear the sound fluctuates and is most defiantly distorted

Any reason why please

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Tooless
 
So you are recording what comes out of a van's sound sytem into a laptop probably using the laptop's internal mic?

No way that's NOT gonna sound like crap.

Why do you want to record audio from your van's speakers anyway?

As to why,
1) Mediocre sound system in a not ideal acoustic environment
2) Mediocre mic in the laptop
3) Mediocre analog to digital converters in the laptop
4 ) Mediocre sound card in laptop
5);Mediocre speakers in the laptop.

Thats a hell of a lot of Mediocre.
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Hi RFR and thanks for your reply
RFR said:
So you are recording what comes out of a van's sound sytem into a laptop probably using the laptop's internal mic?

No way that's NOT gonna sound like crap.

Why do you want to record audio from your van's speakers anyway?

As to why,
1) Mediocre sound system in a not ideal acoustic environment
2) Mediocre mic in the laptop
3) Mediocre analog to digital converters in the laptop
4 ) Mediocre sound card in laptop
5);Mediocre speakers in the laptop.

Thats a hell of a lot of Mediocre.
:D
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Yes thats what I am doing; recording sound from an external device to my laptop
I am wanting ro record a karaoke track and video me singing to it at the same time
What equipment is best?

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Toolless
 
Toolless said:
I am wanting ro record a karaoke track and video me singing to it at the same time
What equipment is best?
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What the best equipment is is determined by the quality you want to achieve and the budget you have.

What are you doing the filming with?

Were I to do what you want fairly economically, I would buy a USB microphone and a decent set of headphones and down load Audacity (which is a audio recording program).

I would load the karaoke track into Audacity onto the laptop, play it, and record me singing along to it.

I would video that.

Then I would mix the recording on Audacity, and replace the video audio with the new mixed audio.
 
gecko zzed said:
What the best equipment is is determined by the quality you want to achieve and the budget you have.

What are you doing the filming with?

Were I to do what you want fairly economically, I would buy a USB microphone and a decent set of headphones and down load Audacity (which is a audio recording program).

I would load the karaoke track into Audacity onto the laptop, play it, and record me singing along to it.

I would video that.

Then I would mix the recording on Audacity, and replace the video audio with the new mixed audio.
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I was filming it or originally had plans to film it using my inbuilt camber in my laptop

Tried audacity and the quality of the sound that came out was crap, yes the quality of both the karaoke track and my singing was crap
And Audacity dose not accept video!

So are you saying an external microphone is going to be better then my inbuilt one?
 
How g ood do you want it to be? Even if you fix the microphone, the playback of the audio will still be rubbish and I'm willing to bet the camera in your laptop is not much good either. Both, along with the inbuilt audio interface, are designed for Skype calls, not music.

In general you probably want to record you voice track into Audacity (with a better mic and an external interface) while you listen to the karaoke track via head phones (obviously you need whatever option on Audacity lets you do multitrack). Then playback the mix of the karaoke and your voice and mime to it while somebody records you on a better camera--even the one in your phone. Copy the video into your lap top and combine the prerecorded mix with the video--there are lots of video editing apps--even Windows Movie Maker should do it.

There are ways you can do it live but that becomes more complicated.
 
Bobbs, Audacity will not AFAIK, do multitrack. It will only record as many tracks as the interface device has, in OP's case two.

Yup, this is a silk purse/sow's ear situation, bit O money needs to be spent.

Dave.
 
What you would normally do is get a DAW that does multi track, like reaper.

Import the karaoke track into the DAW.

Get a vocal mic and an interface and plug them in, per the instruction manual.

Play the track with the day and record your vocal with the mic.

Mix the vocal with the backing track

sync to the video.
 
Bobbsy said:
Multiple tutorials like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21wh0iixiDA seem to imply that it can do at least basic multitrack--but I have to admit that I looked at Audacity for about ten minutes many years ago and decided it wasn't for me.
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Ah! Yes you can BUILD as many tracks as you like but AFAIK you cannot instruct Audacity to open say 8 mono tracks to begin with, as I can say in Samplitude? If you have a 4,6...input AI connected the DAW will see those inputs and give you the same number of tracks.

Butty, but, but. Bit of an odd MO in that vid? Surely better to make a low noise recording in the first place than rely on post tracking noise suppression? Even the best one can introduce artefacts I am told.

I do use noise supp' on wildlife recordings since I cannot control the weather or the neighbours!

Dave.
 
Toolless said:
when I play the stereo system full blast from my van... is most defiantly distorted... Any reason why please
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You seriously have to ask?? This is why I thought you were trolling.

BTW: The word is definitely.
 
Well...it could also be defiantly distorted.
I mean...let's say you get mad and intentionally crank the volume...I would call that defiantly distorted.
 
sometimes i wonder if people are making alternate accounts and posting these types of q's to get a rise out of members.

this doesn't even fit under "home recording" - well, unless he lives in his van....

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down by the river
 
andrushkiwt said:
sometimes i wonder if people are making alternate accounts and posting these types of q's to get a rise out of members.

this doesn't even fit under "home recording" - well, unless he lives in his van....

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down by the river
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I'm almost certain that's what's going on here...
 
Bobbsy said:
How g ood do you want it to be?
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Of reasonable quality I guess

Bobbsy said:
In general you probably want to record you voice track into Audacity (with a better mic and an external interface) while you listen to the karaoke track via head phones (obviously you need whatever option on Audacity lets you do multitrack). Then playback the mix of the karaoke and your voice and mime to it while somebody records you on a better camera--even the one in your phone. Copy the video into your lap top and combine the prerecorded mix with the video--there are lots of video editing apps--even Windows Movie Maker should do it.
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As I said I was more intrested in filming a video
What do you mean by an external interface?

I'm not sure about this headphone buissness; I mean I want the karioke track to be recorded as well, it is not just there for me to be able to time myself
Having a set of headphones stuck inside you ears is like having your ears jammed with cotton wool like you where singing with a cold and missing all the high notes (tried it)

Infact I am completly confused by your statment. Let me look at it another way, if I am wearing headphones then will this improve the quality of the recording instead of the karioke track being played through my external speakers and messing up the recording?

When you mention the recording the video from a separtate device; are you implying I should marry the video recording with the audacity recording files using a movie maker program?
BTW I am using windows 8 and for some reason weather they are cutting down on cost or something but it dose not include a move maker program, I have tried to install other movie making programs but to no avail

And finally if an external microphone is required, can you give me some idea on the kind of microphone I need to buy to do the job?
 
Toolless said:
Of reasonable quality I guess

I'm not sure about this headphone buissness; I mean I want the karioke track to be recorded as well, it is not just there for me to be able to time myself
Having a set of headphones stuck inside you ears is like having your ears jammed with cotton wool like you where singing with a cold and missing all the high notes (tried it)

Infact I am completly confused by your statment. Let me look at it another way, if I am wearing headphones then will this improve the quality of the recording instead of the karioke track being played through my external speakers and messing up the recording?
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The norm when tracking vocals with a backing track (such as karaoke) would be to wear "closed back" headphones so as not to have any of the backing track music be heard and recording by the microphone. Some singers will have only one ear cup of the headphone over an ear to help hear themselves with an ear that is not covered.

Might be available for your version....
Where is Movie Maker in Windows 10? - Windows Help -

Look at this one also. It does have a Windows installer.....
OpenShot Video Editor
 
Farview said:
What you would normally do is get a DAW that does multi track, like reaper.

Import the karaoke track into the DAW.

Get a vocal mic and an interface and plug them in, per the instruction manual.

Play the track with the day and record your vocal with the mic.

Mix the vocal with the backing track

sync to the video.
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As I remember think I tried that program and it was a free 30 or something days trail
Could never work out how to get it to work though
Dose it work with video recording?
 
Chili said:
You seriously have to ask?? This is why I thought you were trolling.

BTW: The word is definitely.
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I can take an engine out of a car, I can change the injector pump and re-time it.
I can rig up a central heating system
I can build/ re build a PC and install an O/S
I can plug a speaker/ microphone into my stereo player and listen to music
But I can't rig up a recording studio!

In fact I am new to all this and just starting out so for god sake please cut me some slack and cut the tit for tat (spelling)

BTW I have to say if that was your honest reason why you though the thread was trolling then with all due respect you need to stop being paranoid and get a life

So I will ignore the 3 posts after the one I have quoted above; because I am a christian
 
Trolling works because it gets taken for a sincere but flawed attempt to communicate. In this case it appears to actually be a sincere but flawed attempt to communicate. Welcome to the forums. Now that we've got that worked out let's solve your recording problems.

Singing with headphones on can be challenging. The one-cup-off method works pretty well, just be sure to keep the unused cup sealed against your head. It also helps to get the volume high enough so you're hearing yourself clearly in the headphones over the sound of your voice being transmitted through your bones ("bone conduction"). On top of that an echo or short reverb can help give a sense of space you lose when you use headphones. Make sure your backing track is being played at an appropriate volume. A mic, interface and proper DAW make this pretty routine.

Since you're doing video you might look into getting IEMs or at least high quality earbuds that block outside sounds and keep the monitor mix from bleeding out.
 
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