where can i go?

[playdeep]

so i upgraded to adobe audition from cool edit. i usually use protools le to record my acappella vocal bands i sing with. but i thought i should get a lightweight prgram like (cool edit/audition) to make very raw tracks of me singing on many tracks so that my guys would have a basic idea of vocal arrangments so i wouldnt have to write them out on sheet music. when i got audition i pleased to see that it really is improved and much more robust than i expected. the problem is when i hoook up a really cheap mini mic(those little ones on the little boom that come with computers these days..this is all i need for th etypes fo raw recordings i will be making for these vocal arr) i get nothing to record in audition when i arm thetrack and when i select the input.....so at this point i am covinced that it is the audio card since the mic works with my minidisc player. so where do i go to find out how to fix this? i know it is porlly a simple problem. i am talking about my toshiba portege laptop with a simple soundcard from ALI. i have checked the volume control panel and set the levels for recording....i have even tried the 'sndrec32' command in the RUN window for windows and the player comes up but when i hit record the mic is not making any visible recordings nor is the computer registering any sound coming into it. any thoughts? thanks boys......

 

[thajeremy]

check the input selections in your CEP/AA track properties. So you know know to ARM the track with the red R. Go below that and you will see a button that says "IN 1". click that and see which input is selected. You need to make sure that it is the input that you are using on the computer. Also, if I were you, I would also slect the left or right channel at this point rather than the stereo option so that you get a mono signal.

hope this is some help..
Jeremy

 

[playdeep]

well i am first to admit that i am not even amazing at protools. but i have never had this simple of problems, usually in protools it is something complex. i tried making sure the track was armed with the red r....and then selected the right or left mono. i have checked my volume control panel thirty times in the control menu for windows. and i have loooked in the input area of AA. there are only two options in the input area for arming the track, ALI sound wave and wave mapper.i have tired both many times. i did check to see if my skype (it is a chat client with the best voip out there) was working......this confirmed to me that it is indeed some kind of driver problem....not only did the keyboard mic not work, neither did the little one i have been plugging in. i eve ntried goign to deive manager and uninstalled the sound card and then re-instlaling it. nothing. one last thing, when i record...i should see a waveform in the track box where i a m recording if it is working right? bc i am not seeing one.....like it is not registering a signal. thanks

 

[playdeep]

i know it is not the mic since i tried it again a bunch on other sources.....any ideas? please? i loaded AA on my desktop and used the same mic. and it is doing the exact same thing....so either i have a bad program...which i doubt...or i am not doing something right.....when i arm the track and hit the spacebar to record shouldnt it show a wave form graph in the track window? bc i am not getting anything....

 

[ozpeter]

In the Windows mixer - or the mixer that controls your sound card - there are separate sets of controls for selecting the record source and the playback source. Make sure that you are in the record source page. Also ensure that the tickbox is not for "mute" but for select. Sorry to go over basic stuff but those are the first things to get right. Also in Options > Device Properties, don't use wavemapper. And try both settings (ticked and unticked) of the "Try as WDM" box.

 

[playdeep]

I think i need to clarify something....when i say i installed aa on my desktop i mean that i installed it on a totally different machine and tried all the steps and all you mentioned on both machines. no love. no when i am choosing between playback and recording, i have chosen recording and then there are several faders: aux, cd, master, microphone...then little boxes below each which say select(except i the master which has a mute all...which i leave unchecked), dont i want to choose the mic box to select? i seem to remember seeing the WDM somewhere but i cant see it anywhere....as far as wave mapper i have it set on ALI audio wave which is my sound card in this particular computer. so now that it wont work on both computers while protools runs fine what are my options? i would think that i have some setting wrong or maybe even a bad program. .....the other thing as i have mentioned before is when i go to record there is no wavform showing in the track window....just the vertical cursor moving along the track as the track appears to record nothing. thoughts?