Getting your mix onto CD Can anyone help - what is the best and cheapest way to get your mix recorded onto a CD? I have a laptop with soundforge / nero etc and have read the excellent guide to recording mixes onto PC in this forum, but I dont have a decent soundcard and the only way it will work is thru the mic port on the laptop and sound quality is shite. How do most other peeps do this?
problem is me laptop aint got a line in jobby (piece of shit) - only the mic port. I was wondering if i need a better soundcard, or if i should just record onto MD, transfer to laptop and then just burn it onto CD?
BTW Si youve got me name wrong in your signature for Bank Holiday m8!!! It was Chris F who played before me last time, not James F!!!
No worries m8!! Im sure ill find a way to sort it - itll just be me being a tool as usual!! Ive always just laid me mixes down at my mates and got him to sort the CD or just done Mini discs if im recording at home! - my own fault for being lazy i suppose!! Well lookin forward to WHQ on bank holiday - will be another belter!!
well done... you can read... he clearly says that atleast once in his previous posts! do any laptops come with a line in? all the ones i've seen don't... anyone know whats the deal with external soundcards? like usb ones? which ones are good?
I use a M-Audio audiophile usb, it's just an external box with stereo phono and jack inputs & outputs, and midi in/out, they cost about £120 (I think), and it is more than adequate for recording mixes, and midi. Plugs into the usb port on your laptop, dead easy to set up too Hope that is some help
i've been recommended This extrenal soundcard... any good? would it be good enough if you wanted to move onto production etc? thanks!
Not too sure about the creative stuff, when I worked in sound control we never used to sell it coz it was more a regular consumer product than a pro-level product, but things may have changed a fair bit since then. The M-audio ones are the best in my opinion and the support for them is really good too, really good online tech support etc, there are others made by the likes of edirol.
No line input. Fucking hell what's your PC anyway? A laptop? Hewlett Packard? [/B][/QUOTE] It is a Hewlett Packard actually - and it runs champ manager mint Got it for nowt as me Mam was given it for work and cant use a tele remote properly never mind a laptop so Ive snaffled it. Looks from what the chaps are saying its an external soundcard or fuck all!! Any ideas where I can pick one up in the toon? I might grab one while im out getting some new choons today...
apparently you can get the one i linked to from most high street comp shops... (cue geeks saying if you can get it from pc world it must be shit ) don't know if its any good tho!
Cheers mate, ill have a bit shop about and see what the crack is before i part with my pesetas. Nowts ever simple as you want it to be!!!
Sound Control Mosley Street - (the one linking the swan house roundabout and the station) Just next to where dean st starts They'l give you the best advice and actually help you if you have a problem, if you get one from pc world etc, you might get a good deal, but if you have any problems, then they don't know about them, so they'll just tell you to ring tech-support, which will probs be a premium rate number - places like that are just box shifters, they don't care about getting you the right thing for you. If you go to sound control, speak to rob, he's sound. Just something to consider.
