here are a few things.
First off, go straight from your pre-amp into the computer. This
eliminates a lot of circuitry in the cignal chain that could goofing with
things. plug the shelf system into the soundcard out, so you can monitor
what you actually record.
These other two ideas are software dependant:
1) run the whole track through a 'remove DC offset' process first
(oh - make sure the turntable, preamp, and computer are all plugged
into the same circuit in the wall, main amp and speakers too
if you can't switch around your signal chain)
2) remove any pops and clicks by hand or with a plug in from the audio
recording
normalize only works as well as the loudest peak in the signal. so one
click that gets clipped, for instance, means that none of the musical
signal gets normalized.
-Gil
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, alan r lucas 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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