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Recording to a Notebook Computer
Started June 20th, 2009 · 9 replies · Latest reply by sam376329 15 years, 1 month ago
a laptop is fine to record to.
What soundcard are you using?
It's great for recording. Audio Device and Driver sound straight. you might ned a preamp for some things but any booster will do, (as long as it doesn't distort sound). Everything I have done mostly from bent hardware was recorded in audacity with realtec.
you dont want a noise cancellation, you want to have the mic probably 75 percent up and the preamp to just enough to hear it clearly, (you can alway boost sound In audacity, and with less distortion and such) You MIC matters ALOT as well, if its a gaming mic or a pro mic, they sound different and are used for different things, like headphones! You can play around with audio setting, just open audacity (cool freeware/ and I am assuming your on a VISTA system?_ and p[lay with settings until you find what you like! Good Luck...... And play around with the DVD quality samplerate and see if it helps, in ADV tab,
GL
-Kat
Hi cowbuck.
As well as CyberiaLainKittyKats useful observations, in Realtek Control Panel, under the the output option that you are using, you want to turn off Loudness Equalisation. That stops the audiocard from riding the gain and changing the output level on low and high level sounds. (It took me some time to realise that the "surging" in levels that I was getting on the computer I'm now using wasn't down to my bad recording technique.)
