General recording question

[monic]

Someone help me please! I am about to record my vinyls to mp3s and don't understand much of the technology for music recording. I have bought an Audiophile 2496 soundcard and record from a record player connected to a stereo amplifier using the RCA input jacks.

I have been able to record using Delta Control Panel and Polderbits software. I listen to the recordings through M-Audio Studiophile speakers and it sounds ok. But why do the special Windows sounds sound so much stronger through the speakers than my recordings?

The volume regulators in Polderbits are stuck all the way up and cannot be moved manually (regardless if I record or not), and the volume light bars do not move more than one third up the scale.

The volume light bars in Delta Control Panel move as they should, keeping close to but never really hitting orange.

I could not find an RCA cable of the length I needed and have a 10m cable from the stereo to the soundcard. (I have 800 MHz Celeron processor, 256 MB memory and run XP.)

 

[TimOBrien]

You also need to check the volume controls in the Windows audio mixer (welcome to the stupid world of Windows....)

 

[thajeremy]

maybe the signals you are recording are not strong enough. give us more detail of what you are doing. are you coming out of your turn tables and into your sound card?
If so...maybe you would want to use a preamp...im not sure about that because im not sure of the signal level from a turn table. if you can get your hands on a mixer, use the 'tape in' section of the mixer to connect your turn table to it, then use the main out of the mixer to connect to your sound card. see if that will give you a stronger signal to your soundcard.

 

[Bulls Hit]

What happens when you turn up the volume on your amplifier?

Also check the Hardware settings on the Delta Control Panel. I think you can choose the input level - either +4 or -10. Try changing that & see if it makes any difference

 

[Dracon]

Like Bull Hit said!

I would check the software input on your Audio Card and see it's sound level.
As for Windows I don't know how much you know of computers or software. So here it goes. If you have 2000 or XP go to the start menu select the control panel and select the Sounds and Audio Devices.

The window that opens will default to the Volume tab and will tell you what device its using, in your case it should say the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96.

Click on the Audio Tab, and ensure that the Sound Playback has the correct device in the box that says Default device:
then look at the Sound Recording area and ensure that the Default Device is the correct one. If you are plugged into line 3/4 then your sound recording should be obviously 3/4, but you could also have the Multi selected, which will allow you to record but it somehow degredates the signal. You loose some power.

Good luck!