Recording On Microstudio 4.00

[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)

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by 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)

I have had several microphones and headsets for computers....none of which have ever been powered??

[jahern]

Still, do the typical microphones that we plug into our ampliphiers to sing karaoke work with the computer? Mine didn't and I'm kind of exploring why not. My curiosity was given a rebirth because of this thread.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by jahern

Still, do the typical microphones that we plug into our ampliphiers to sing karaoke work with the computer? Mine didn't and I'm kind of exploring why not. My curiosity was given a rebirth because of this thread.

It depends on the impedence of the microphone. If the mic is high impedence and computer or mixer for that matter is a low impedence then the output is greatly deminished and can be so low you can't here anything.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

It depends on the impedence of the microphone. If the mic is high impedence and computer or mixer for that matter is a low impedence then the output is greatly deminished and can be so low you can't here anything.

i tried recording using a direct connection, used my laptop as the audio source (microstudio ) and a cd recorder/burner both plugged into my mixing board and a mic also plugged into the board.." i get an error msg. from the cd recorder " no audio ".. just wondering if anyone out there succesfully recorded anything..

[Roy Dennis]

Hi Dale & Jahern

I think as Dale said in his first reply that I have a software problem with my sound card, nothing to do with microstudio.

Answering Dales idea. I dont get any reaction with System audio controls in microstudios mike setting by double clicking.

In answer to Jahern, I use my karaoke mike and it works fine if I record voice only, it's just that I can not mix with another source.

When I get a bit more time to spare I will try uninstalling my sound card and reinstalling. I am a bit reluctant to try it at the moment as I have some shows to do with my Hoster Programme and might mess up the sound for that.

In my shows with Hoster I record the whole show in single takes from the record out on my mixer which feeds back into my computer using my sound blaster sound card line in sockets. Together with creative media sauce player which has a record button on it and auto signal leveling, this works fine and saves all recordings in MP3 format that does'nt use up much hard drive space.
I know it's not legal but I burn about 18-20 of the songs on CD. The manager at one bar puts it on his juke box and it gives everybody a good laugh.

Thanks for your ideas.

Roy.