Recording On Microstudio 4.00

[Roy Dennis]

I have been trying to record my voice added to the music playing but either get just my voice, or just the music. I have tried various settings in microstudio & in Windows settings. In sound & audio devices, record, it shows 3 items, Stereo Mix, CD Audio, & Microphone. Now it will only allow me to tick one box. It is much the same wheather I use my internal sound card or my sound blaster external card. The only way I have been able to record both is to play it through my external mixer. Which defeats the object of the original idea of capturing every track and saving when you think you have a good take. Am I doing something completly wrong or is it the limitations of my equipment.

Dell Inspiron 5150
Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2
Processor -Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R)
4 CPU 3.06GHz
1.59 GHz, 256MB of RAM
Sound Card -Sigma Tel Audio.(On-board sound device)
Sound Blaster Model S80270 (external Sound Device)
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
HD60 Gb Hard Drive Internal & 400Gb Samson USB External.
CD-R - Plextor Premium U
DVD HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GC-4040N
DirectX Version - 9.0

Any ideas

Roy Dennis

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

I have been trying to record my voice added to the music playing but either get just my voice, or just the music. I have tried various settings in microstudio & in Windows settings. In sound & audio devices, record, it shows 3 items, Stereo Mix, CD Audio, & Microphone. Now it will only allow me to tick one box. It is much the same wheather I use my internal sound card or my sound blaster external card. The only way I have been able to record both is to play it through my external mixer. Which defeats the object of the original idea of capturing every track and saving when you think you have a good take. Am I doing something completly wrong or is it the limitations of my equipment.

Dell Inspiron 5150
Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2
Processor -Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R)
4 CPU 3.06GHz
1.59 GHz, 256MB of RAM
Sound Card -Sigma Tel Audio.(On-board sound device)
Sound Blaster Model S80270 (external Sound Device)
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
HD60 Gb Hard Drive Internal & 400Gb Samson USB External.
CD-R - Plextor Premium U
DVD HL-DT-ST DVD+RW GC-4040N
DirectX Version - 9.0

Any ideas

Roy Dennis

Roy this sounds like sound card software problem. Did you try it in Stereo Mix as that should give you both?

[Roy Dennis]

Hi Dale Douglass

Yes Idid try it in stereo mix and thats when I only get the music, nothing from the mike although I press the button to show mike on in Microstudio.

I will keep on trying when I get the time maybe I will stumble on the solution.

Roy Dennis.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

Hi Dale Douglass

Yes Idid try it in stereo mix and thats when I only get the music, nothing from the mike although I press the button to show mike on in Microstudio.

I will keep on trying when I get the time maybe I will stumble on the solution.

Roy Dennis.

Some people have had a problem with the Microstudio not changing the microphone setting in the audio control panel. Try opening it by double clicking on the speaker icon in the tray and watch the microphone control as you change Microstudio to see if it is functioning correctly.

[jahern]

A while back I wanted to record my voice. My direcet mic setup didn't work there either. (I wasn't using Microstudio, this was about a year ago) I did exactly what you are describing.

I decided that my microphone might need to be the right kind of Computer microphone. Have you tried a mike specifically meant to be used with a computer?

[jahern]

Looked at computer mics on outpost.com (Fry's) and looked at the description of a microphone for the computer. It is amplified, which means it needs to be plugged into a power source. I Figured that that might be the case when I was doing my recording a year ago, but I solved the problem then by using my mixer (which of course has a power source)

[billyo]

i havent heard anything about recording on microstudio if it was fixed or can we now record without having all the previous problems..just wanted to know

[ddouglass]

Yes it is fixed.