how do i put my song on minidisc to my computer? help..

[chalman]

dear audio recording buffs,

i have a problem. i have a yamaha MD8 mini-disc recorder. i record my songs on this. what i want to do is transfer my songs i recorded on this to my computer. i bought an audigy platinum 2 drive with the soundcard. here's the link of it's manual if you wanna do a quick research of its capabilities:

<http://www.americas.creative.com/support/manuals/files/aud2plat.pdf>

anyhow, i hooked the audigy up to my computer so it gives me RCA hookup capability now. so what i tried to do is hook up RCA out on the yamaha mini-disc player to RCA in on the audigy drive. i opened a sound program on the computer (i think it was "audio stream recorder", a program that came with my soundcard). anyways, i saw none of the levels go up in the sound program when i pressed play on the mini-disc recorder. i tried messing with knobs and stuff but could never figure it out. can you help me? do i need something between the minidisc recorder and the audigy drive? do i need a certain program? do i need to turn something on or off that i don't know about? i'm confused!! if you could help me, that'd be great! thanks for your time...

sincerely,
chalin...the confused recorder guy

 

[kid klash]

The problem is on your PC end. Click the START button; click the SETTINGS button; click the CONTROL PANEL button; click the MULTIMEDIA button... make sure the audio channel that you are sending your MD signal to is not muted, and that the "fader" is turned up.

By the way; MD technology uses a "compression" scheme to create smaller than normal file sizes. It's somewhat "lossy" sounding, better than cassette but not as good as CD... it's sort of like a high quality MP3 file.

Anyway, if you plan to do digital editing of your music while it resides in your PC, I'd suggest buying a copy of Sound Forge from Sonic Foundry... it's the defacto stereo editor. You can change the sample rate of the MD file with Sound Forge too, so you can burn real CDs from your MD source material. It won't make it sound better, but at least you can open the file and save it as a 44.1khz WAV file (which is required for making red book music CDs).

 

[chalman]

thanks!

thanks for your input. it helped me! i figured it out! my input channel fader was all the way down and muted. once i un-muted and turned it up, all was well.

i just want to put all the music down and mix it on the computer and then burn a cd...that's all..

thanx again,
chalin