on 11/23/00 9:02 AM, alan r lucas at alucas@telerama.com wrote:
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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Watch the levels _on the computer_ as you record. It doesn't matter how high
they are leaving your tables if the computer is recording them low.
Normalize the entire track after recording, this will bring the level up as
high as it can get without clipping.
-l[e^2]
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