DionDJ Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 I just bought a new laptop & when I record though Audacity it comes out really tinny and poor quality, almost like it is using the internal microphone and picking up the sound that is coming through the speakers in the room.My old laptop had internal and external sound drivers for the mic, this one just says Microphone and when you look in the settings in depicts and internal and 3.5 jack. Not too sure if that means it automatically detects that when you plug in something to the jack it will use that input instead. I have attached a photo to show what I mean. Any help / advice would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Raptor Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 What about the bottom right hand corner of the screen. Do you have a sound driver control panel you can open (not the windows one)?Sometimes you need to manually tell it what you have plugged in. rare, but i've seen it. you would have to tell the sound driver that you are using it as a line in.You can also change the recording settings in the windows sound area. you can select to mute all items except for line in. thats also a good idea.Also check Audacity to ensure it only records from the linein source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREMM1S Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 If you dont have a line in port you cant record mixes with the internal soundcard man.I have realtek on one of my laptops and it's all predefined you shouldnt need to set any of the input.Just buy a cheap usb soundcard dude, although also possible you might be able to use the mic port like you said, im sure somebody can explain whether a line in and mic port are actually the same or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 mic port has more gain than a line in port. which when you plug a record out from a dj mixer to a mic in it puts a too high of a gain on it, causing clipping / distortionby the looks of your soundcard there you only have a mic in and not a line in, your best bet probably is to get a cheap external man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SourceRaver Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Grab a Behringer UCA 202 for an easy fix. May still need to mute microphone otherwise may record both line level signal in and room noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DionDJ Posted October 2, 2012 Author Share Posted October 2, 2012 Thanks guys, think I sorted it by playing with the levels and turning all the noise cancelers etc off. Still doesn't sound 100% right but maybe that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vieri3217 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 yep as they said, an external sound card will fix it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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