Not recording...

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Ton_y

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Hello
My name is Tony I am a Newbie. :D
Out of my cassete deck into PC's line in or microphone
coming out of my monitors fine but not recording?
With my windows mixer line in or microphone and or the Casette decks Volume I can up the Volume till distortion though the monitors
BUT My Cool edits VU is always at -36 not enough.....
My sound card "Sound max" is selected as Cool pro 1.2a as my input device...

Lost in the Midwest with a Cassette of VanHalen
Live in Pasadena just after there first albums Debut...

Thanks
Tony
 
If the tape deck is connected to line in, in cool edit go - Options - windows recording mixer - and select "line in". ( make sure you tick the box ).

If this fails try the mic in. and then select mic in ( in windows rec mixer ).

edit: if you have any other choices available in "input device" try them.

hope this helps
 
dude...
a cassette deck does not have a pre-amp...it aint got the "oomph" to send the signal....you need to run the deck to an amp then run the output of the amp into the PC....
Be careful not to blow your card though man...make sure your amp aint jacked...

happy tracking dude :cool:
 
joro said:
dude...
a cassette deck does not have a pre-amp...it aint got the "oomph" to send the signal....you need to run the deck to an amp then run the output of the amp into the PC....
Be careful not to blow your card though man...make sure your amp aint jacked...

happy tracking dude :cool:
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I'm pretty sure that most cassette decks are putting out a -10 line level signal.

If you can drive up the signal to distortion on the PC speakers then I would think the problem is somewhere in the soundcard's or CEP's options/settings.

I would start by checking that you are actually using the line input as your recording source in the soundcard's or window's recording options section, most computers are setup to use either the "what you hear" or "wave out" or "wave" as the recording source when they are new.
 
The standard pc audio sytem is what you have, AKA "AC97" (after the Intel/Microsoft standard).
You cannot select the line-in from your recording software.
A search in Windows help will reveal what to do, but as no-one ever bothers with that ;)
....
Recent CEP AFAIK has a menu shortcut to Windows recording mixer
Or, right-click on the speaker icon, select adjust audio properties. On the sounds tab and recording click volume.
I leave the rest to you, but if you don't see a line-in, open the options menu.
 
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