A headphone jack expects to see a certain amount of impedence which the
line-in on your sound card does not offer. Try going from a line-level
output jack to the computer...
----- Original Message -----
From: alan r lucas <alucas@telerama.com>
To: intellidansic <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 12:02 PM
Subject: [idm] can someone lend a hand?
quoted 27 lines okay... music-related question:> okay... music-related question:
>
> when i record tracks from my turntable to my PC as .wavs, the volume is oh
> so quiet. this is a big pain when i'm making a mix CD or something and the
> tracks from CDs have a nice big sound, but tracks from vinyl are really
> soft. even if i normalize them, it doesn't really help.
>
> here's how i have it set up:
>
> turntable goes to the pre-amp, which in turn goes to the line-in on my
> shelf-system. then i have the other cable plugged into the headphone jack
> of the shelf system and back to the line-in on my PC.
>
> so what am i doing wrong?
>
> if anyone could help, i'd really *really* appreciate it.
>
> thanks,
> alan!
>
> np:invisible soundtracks 5
>
>
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