I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard with my decks and mixer hooked up to it, i record my mixes a lot and i seem to notice it being a bit distorted. I can never get it perfect quallity. Can you give me some tips on recording? I use Sound forge to record. I would just like to know what volume and what kinda normalizing i need to do to get it perfect.


Thanks

First this isnt the right forum, there is an area totally dedicated to this sort of thing.

But see if this helps.


Connect the computer to the output on the mixer that says REC not the standard volume control.

Second be very careful when you play your songs, make sure that they are at or below the 0 db range. (use the que function) to look at the highest level the song puts out. When i record I make sure that it never goes above the 0 db's. Try that and se if it helps. Anything above that will make it get very distorted. There are ways to cure the sound after it is distorted but that is a waste. Better to get it right from the beginning.

Otherwise your needles may be starting to go.

Shit i forgot about posting htat kinda thing here Anyway, thanks for the advice Im still open to Suggestions.

Thanks

when listening to your mixes again do they come out via the shitty computer speakers. If so then you get distortion cos' basically computer speakers are shite. If the sound comes out via normal speakers then i don't know.

Well they do come out of shitty computer speakers. But..... WHen i play an Fully ripped or recorded MP3 that i have downloaded and play it back at the same volume they sound Fine. It's when im trying to record it gets a bit fucked up.

** coughs **


Did you even try what i said?

Yes as soon as u posted it and it has helped a bit, but i still need some more info, mainly on the software, ive looked in the help file but its quite hard to understand. it needs simplifining. Stuff like recording volume and that.

The right forum is DJ-Booth:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...hp?s=&forumid=8

There are just some discussion on recording...

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...&threadid=86016
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...&threadid=88809