Help recording a mix?!

If you’re using CDJ’s and a mixer, you would need to use a cable from your mixer into your mic in of your laptop. Hopefully your mixer has got two outputs so you can send the audio to both the laptop (for recording) and your amp/speakers.

I suppose it you could also use your amp if it has a spare output where you don’t have any speakers plugged in, just make sure you send a mono signal then.

[INDENT][FONT=Tahoma]”So basically i need one RCA running to my amp and speakers and then another RCA to go into the line in on my laptop right?”[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Exactly, most mixers have a ‘Master Out’ and a ‘Rec Out’ input at the back,, the ”Master’ should go to your amp and speakers and the ‘Rec’ should go to the Mic In on your laptop (you’ll need a ‘y’ splitter cable of course, with the split red & white connectors on one end and just 1 jack on the other end) I use this set-up to record in Audacity and the quality is perfect. I cant remember how i have my inputs set up in Audacity, i’m in work at the moment and can check for you later tho. Good Luck! [/INDENT][/FONT]

Ok i checked how the inputs/outputs are set up in Audacity, in the dropdown box at the far top left of the screen (the output box, with the speaker symbol beside it) i have that set to ‘Windows DirectSound:Primary Sound Driver’, and the box to the right of that (input, with the microphone symbol beside it) i have set to ‘Windows DirectSound : Stereo Mix (Realtek High Definition Audio).

This works for me perfectly, but i will say that i spent literally weeks trying to get everything right in Audacity, i honestly cant remember if i tweaked anything else on my laptop, but this setup works perfectly for me. Also obviously i’m on Windows, hope you are as well, otherwise possibly back to square one!!

Hope this helps you, let me know if it does

Cheers

No problem at all, really hope it works for ya, theres nothin better than recording your mixes and listening back to them, you can see where you were good and where you were bad 😉 and of course getting your sound out there will hopefully lead to gigs and who knows what! Defo let me know if the setup works out for ya, look forward to hearing your mixes 🙂

Your laptop should have tree ports—headphone out, mic in, and “line in”
You want line in.
Use audacity.
Do a few test runs to get your level right, because you won’t be able to listen to the recording while it’s recording. Your laptop is “single-channel audio”
Once the recording is finished, Look through the waveform for the places where the tracks change. There, you can “split” the recording. (This will not affect the “mix”) it will give you the ability to ouput the entire mix as a group of tracks again. People like to jump around on cds, what can you do, smh…
Ok, so once the mix is cut back into individual tracks, select each track(in order) individually and export. Audacity will gve you the option to input the name and any other data you want to add.
Now, when it comes time to make a cd, make sure that you select “No Pause between tracks” before you burn it. This way, you have a mix cd that plays like a “mix” but the listener can also jump around by track number.

“Your laptop should have tree ports—headphone out, mic in, and “line in”
You want line in.”

p.s i was also told this in a good few forums when i was trying to get set up, but my laptop (and i think many laptops) doesnt have a ‘line-in’, so in this case the ‘Mic in’ does the job perfectly (as long as your coming from a mixer’s Rec Out, had a few disasters connecting my controller DIRECTLY to the Mic In port, this caused absolute ear-bleed noise to come out of the speakers :-P)

Thats great, delighted you’re up and running anyway, its strange because before i started recording through the mixer (when i just hooked up my controller directly to the laptop) i had a tiny high-pitched hiss on my recordings at first as well, only really audible at really quiet parts of the track, or the very beginning, just like you said, but once i started using the mixer it was gone? Maybe mess around with your input/recording vloume level within Audacity, keep it down to 2 or 3, and it might help? Worth a try anyway, either way, you’re learning already so its all good, enjoy! 🙂