Help with recording mixes to laptop
Hey guys,
I'm a noob when it comes to recording my mixes onto the PC. I have been using an RCA cable coming out of my mixer, with an RCA > 1/8" Mono adapter at the end. The adapter is plugged into the Mic In port on my leptop. I use Cool Edit Pro, set at 44100Khz with a 16-bit sampling rate, to record the input from the Mic port.
The problem is that things don't sound good. Going from Stereo to Mono is enough of a problem, but no matter what I do I get a hiss in the background of my recordings. At first I thought it was my mixer (an Ion), but upgrading to a Numark DXM06 (which is supposed to have an all-digital output), I still get the hiss. I'm using all digital equipment (CDJ 200s and the DXM mixer), so why does it sound like I have a needle on a vinyl somewhere?
Also, sometimes if the cable going into my Mic port is rotated or bumped, sometimes the music input cuts out and is replaced with a loud "buzz" sound. Sometimes there will be a bit of buzz, then what sounds like pops. Many times I have to take the cable out, then put it back in to fix the problem. There distortions are clearly visible on Cool Edit's waveform display, and I'm really tired of random distortion mucking up my mixes...
I don't know how to exactly describe it because I am not experienced in sound engineering beyond hooking the equipment up. Any advise or suggestions would be appreciated. I just want to record a clean-sounding mix-tape
What do I need to do to get a good sounding mix?
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