Please help me here, kinda microphone question

[Slackmaster2K]

Disabling the microphone channel's "amplification" would only result in another line level input. And no, it's not possible....or it is, but you'd be better off not trying

You need to use the line in on your soundcard. I know it doesn't work yet, I'm getting to that.

First of all you have to bring in enough signal. Are you running a line out from your unit? Are you SURE it's line out? Try the monitor output at a low level and see if that helps. You MUST adjust the Line Input Level from the Recording volume control. Crank it as high as it will go. And make sure it's NOT muted!

Can you monitor the sound coming in with the computer speakers or headphones? There is another volume knob for that in the Playback volume control. Often times the Line In in both the Recording and Playback controls are the same. But check it anyway, and make sure it's not muted and crank the volume up.

If you can't hear the sound coming into the computer THROUGH the computer speakers or headphones AFTER trying both of the above mentioned procedures...you have a problem. It may be that the line in on your soundcard is blown. What kind of soundcard do you have? New drivers might actually help in some cases. And cheaper soundcards will not produce good results. I used to have a cheap ESS based soundcard and all I could record with it was distortion and hum with a little bit of music in there somewhere. The signal response was horrid.

So to recap that mess...you need to verify that you do in fact have a strong signal from your source (and that your cable is good) and you need to verify that the line in port on your soundcard is working properly.

Basically, if you can't monitor what's coming in to the soundcard...and the source is producing more than enough signal...and your windows settings are correct...then you need to run down to the computer shop and pick up a new soundcard. SB PCI128 or SB/Ensoniq AudioPCI are both 30 bucks and good. The SB live is 80 bucks and pretty good.

Slackmaster 2000

 

[ShotFullOfDiamonds]

I've got guitars and a drum machine and I've recorded songs onto my new 4 track (A Fostex X-24) and I wanted to record them straight onto my computer, as a .wav file, however if I use the 'Line 1' input, neither Soundforge XP or Window 95's Sound Recorder will pick up for some reason, but if I put it into the 'microphone' input it will record, however, when it records it is amplified by the computer (according to my brother) but I can't find how I could turn this inner amplifiction off so that the recording sounds right... I've tried recording stuff through the microphone but it records a really choppy horrible bad quality .wav and there's usually background noise generated just from the microphone input or something, it sounds horrible. So I was wondering how I can;

1 - Set the line one so that Sound Recorder and Soundforge XP can pick it up?

OR

2 - How I can turn off the inner amplification on the microphone input so that I can use it to record a good sounding copy?

 

[gordone]

You need to set the soundcard to record from the line-in rather than the mic input.
-Click on the speaker in the task tray.
-Select Options | Properties
-Select "Adjust Volume for Recording"
-Press OK
-You should now see a window with sliders for input, simply select the "line-in" rather than the mic input.
-You can also adjust the recording volume from here.

Good luck!
-Evan

 

[ShotFullOfDiamonds]

I know about that, and I've already tried it, the computer still wont record from the line in although the music actually gets played through it.