I am recording from my DJ mixer (Numark 5000fx) through my interface (M-Audio Mobile Pre USB) using XLR in to Ableton. I am having inconsistencies when I’m recording my mixes and it is becoming very frustrating and discouraging.

I am not the most experienced Ableton user so keep this in mind. Something that might be an easy fix for you guys could be the one thing I’m overlooking.

The strange thing about it is that I have had success when restarting the program or just messing around with the Audio preferences, but when I try the same thing I am getting a sound that sounds like it’s almost clipping though I know it is not. I have my Input Config set to 1/2(stereo) and my mixer is also set on stereo. My monitoring is also set to “Off”. From what I understand those are correct settings so I don’t know why this is happening.

Hopefully someone with some Ableton experience can help me out here. Or maybe I’m trying to use the wrong program all together. If you guys have any other suggestions for programs to record in to that will give me good sound quality then let me know.

I had some problems when i first started recording into Ableton too. I tried Cubase LE 4 and i also had the same problems.

Heres that i did to fix my problem.

At first i was recording digital in(co-axial) for no real reason it was skipping every once in a while. Im guessing it was the sample rate.

I switched to standard RCA in's...could have fixed it.

Besides that some main things to check for:
Quit all programs.
Check your latency settings on your driver. Adjust accordingly.
Go into your process's (if using windows) and cancel the ones that you don't need. There are a bunch in there for me, i tunes helper, windows media server, blah blah...just end all the processes.

These might help you.

Goodluck m8

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Yeah, sounds like it could be a latency issue.

Also if u have wireless internet on the computer, turn it off.

Good call about the internet.

I noticed that if i un-plug/plug in my ethernet line while i am recording, it will glitch up for a half second just from that alone.

So to prevent that i always disconnect from the internet and any other junk before recording.

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Thanks for the tips guys. I'm starting to get the feeling it's time for a new computer as well. I'm using a 4 year old Sony Vaio so I think this might be causing a few problems too.

hmmm I'm using a 1 year old VAIO lol. It works good for everything but it seems that i have those problems with recording. Works good now though.

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