Help with audio interface

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MattyH

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I don't know if I've posted in the right section but here goes.............I recently ordered an audio interface from HTFR, I want to start recording my mixes and burning them onto CD's. When my delivery arrived they sent me the wrong one, I ordered a Numark one, but in fact received a Citronic one. I thought it doesn't matter and I couldn't be bothered sending it back etc. Now the problem is that it won't record on my laptop. I have set it up according to the instructions and installed the Audacity software. I think the problem is the gain control on it. It says you have to set it so it shows a green light rather than the red. You do this by adjusting the gain knob. The only time I can get the light to green is when the volume and gain on my mixer is fully turned down.

Please can someone help me?
 
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U31

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Red and green on my citronic signify line in or phono for vinyl???

A quick run down of my settings, and i warn you its a juggling act to avoid clipping ... you must NEVER record over 0bb in audacity minus point 1 ( -0.1 db) is the ideal you are aiming for, but its bloody hard and you risc clipping, so its best to record at a lower level and use audacity to ramp it up later, you can always amplify you can never remove clipping.

My set up goes TT to mixer, mixer master to hifi, booth out to citronic, in to USB on the computer.
Turn citronic gain right down, mixer booth out about half way, mic slider on Audacity up full.
Now you need to set up audacity.
At the top under the Vol and mic sliders are 3 drop down boxes.
First one is set to windows direct sound driver, second one to the computer's soundcard, in my case Speakers Hi definition. The third one is where it records from, and for this you need to select your soundcard , it may say USB microphone, it may say usb citronic, mine says Microphone (usb 5 Audio)

Next hit record on audacity with the decks and mixer turned on, your listening for noise, turn up the citronic until u can just hear hiss etc, then back down so it just dissapears
set the record going at the known loudest bit, and watch audacitys meter - you are aiming for about minus 3 ish Db, use the booth out gain or the citronic cards gain to juggle the best compromise of about -3 db

HTH
 


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