Recording mixes

[Jimmy1983]

Iam using audacity to record some mixes round a mates works fine on my laptop but on his the bass is very heavy and it sounds awful.

Any ideas?

 

[Mark M]

Too much bass being applied at the mixer? Speakers could be compensating for it in some way but audacity isnt?

 

[Jimmy1983]

Well we didn't change any settings from my laptop so iam not sure. The sound is real bad very distorted.

 

[anything I don't mind]

turn down the recording volume ?

if it is clipping it cause you are recording it too loud, you should leave at least 6db of headroom when recording so that it does not clip.

So go to recording volume options and set the volume of the mic to below middle.

Otherwise it could be a cheap mic that does not pick up the low frequencies properly

 

[Liquid_Entity]

if you are using a laptop to record I can only presume you are recording it in mono and thru the mic port. Nasty !

Buy a cheap usb soundcard and plug em in that way, then either stick with audactiy or get soundforge

 

[Jimmy1983]

if you are using a laptop to record I can only presume you are recording it in mono and thru the mic port. Nasty !

Buy a cheap usb soundcard and plug em in that way, then either stick with audactiy or get soundforge

Yeah just recording off the mic...sound quality off my laptop was pretty good actually burnt it to cd and that too sounded good.

Can you recommend a certain soundcard?

 

[Liquid_Entity]

I have an M-Audio Firewire Audiophile on my setup but you can buy USB2 models as well. Check out M-Audio but there are other brands too.