Go to the bottom of the edit drop down and click on preferences. About halfway down the first tab in the preferences menu you will se a group of options that are labelled recording. Click on the channels drop down and change the input from mono to stereo.
There are two tick boxes below the controls labeled recording. Leave the first on alone, but you can tick the second one if you want to listen to what you are recording through your computer speakers while you are recording it. Click the OK button to save your settings and return to audacity. Now that you have the recording software installed you need to set up your hardware for recording.
Now that we have your precious tapes recorded into a slightly more usable format we are going to touch up their quality a bit. Both cassette tapes and old records suffer from static which is technically called white noise.
Static is usually much worse on tapes than records but it is also often present on records. So now we are going to remove it so that your music is more enjoyable follow these steps: Open Audacity and load the track that you want remove static from.
Find a two or three second stretch that is just static. By this I mean a section that has no vocals or instruments just static. This part will almost always be at the beginning or end of the recorded track. Select this section with your cursor. Click on the "Effect" drop Down. About half-way down you should find "Noise Removal" click on it. A small window should pop up. After making sure you have your two or three second piece of just static selected, click on the button labelled noise profile.
You will see a little window with a blue bar for a second and then it will go away and Audacity will look like nothing has happened. But things have happened, Audacity has figured out what static is on your track. Now select the amount of your track that you want to remove noise from.
Once you have selected the part of your track that you want to remove noise from go back into the noise removal tool. Towards the bottom of the noise removal window you should see a slider bar that controls how much static Audacity removes from your track. Move the slider bar so that very little noise is being removed.
If you try to remove to much noise it will mess up the track itself. Click the remove noise button and audacity will remove the static. I usually remove noise in small amounts many times. You may want to update the noise profile before each removal. Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! Reply Upvote. MorinEst 10 months ago on Step 3. Nahhu 5 years ago.
DavidM 5 years ago. SallyI 5 years ago. ClintJ6 nurdee1 Reply 5 years ago. ClintJ6 nathanrjones Reply 5 years ago. ClintJ6 5 years ago. That was probably about the time you got your old laptop that allowed you to digitize.
Then about 7 years ago Dell started phasing in the smart phone combo jacks and eventually it was back to just a mono mic input in the laptops. So I guess one could say Dell has gone full circle regarding the jacks.
Bolehill "now I have a totally useless bit of kit, as far as I am concerned. If you just got this laptop, it might not be too late to return it for a refund. If you still have your Vista laptop you can use it for digitizing.
Bolehill "s the only solution to try and get a USB to stereo phono lead and hope that works? But in your 1st post you said you are using the line-outs on the back of your amp. If that is the case then you don't need a phono pre-amp, just a usb device with line inputs. Either of those devices will allow you to digitize your tapes and vinyl at the quality of cd's.
Note that I am not endorsing those products or any others. I am just providing the links as examples of cheap usb line-in interfaces. There are plenty of other similar products on the market, some of which might be a better choice particularly if you were to spend more.
Bolehill "Trouble is, the signal from the amplifier or direct from my normal turntable is analog - will the USB connector deal with this? Yes, that is what the interface is for. The interface contains the ADC analog to digital converter that digitizes the analog signal. The digital signal is then sent to the laptop through the usb port.
At that point you can use your software to record save the signal, but it is the interface that does the heavy lifting of converting the signal to digital. Bolehill "Properties, Listen tab does have a tick box that says 'Listen to this device' which was unchecked, so I checked it and clicked Apply. The "Listen to this device" is for monitoring the input signal. At the time you checked the box, the input signal was from the internal mic. As soon as you checked the box the speakers started playing whatever the mic picked up, and the mic picked up whatever the speakers were playing, creating feedback.
To prevent this, plug in headphones before checking the box. That way you can monitor the signal without creating feedback. BTW, if you get a usb interface, most or all of them come with a headphone jack for monitoring, so you can monitor the signal through the interface if you need to monitor , without having to enable the Windows' "Listen to this device".
I get the picture now about the stereo jack socket, so am giving up on that. I have indeed ordered a basic Behringer product the UCA U as it happens and will now wait for this to arrive. After you plug in the Behringer to the laptop's usb port, open the Recording tab of the Windows Sound dialog and make sure that the usb device is selected as the default device there. It should show up in the list of devices as either a Behringer device or as a generic usb device. It will probably be automatically selected whenever you plug it in, but check anyway to be sure.
I am reasonably sure it can be done for two reasons:. The fact that the audio can be passed to the speakers through a simple two ring cable. I know usually the two rings are used only for output with a third ring for input, but it seems to me this would suggest they are capable of inputting without the third ring. My problem is there doesn't seem to be any api to deal with input through the headphone jack, and no one seems to know how the square reader works, or deals with the input. So if anyone could help me with any information on AudioRecord and how it works, or an alternative way of dealing with the input, I'd appreciate it.
Also if someone knows for sure if I am correct in thinking the two ring cable can deal with input, that would also help a lot. Archived Link. Audio Recording With a Smartphone will shed some light on the headphone rings and their configuration. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. What we're doing here is turning your phone's mic input into a line input; the problem with that is a mic input is designed to work with a very tiny signal level. Feed the output of your notebook's sound card straight into the mic input, for example, and you'll completely swamp it. So, the first thing is to drop the audio output level of your playback device down to nothing. Plug in the cables, switch your phone to Audalyzer and you should get an audio level reading of about dB or so.
This is what's called the noise floor of your phone's audio input section. Now, with music or whatever playing and starting with zero volume, very slowly start increasing the device's audio output level notch by notch.
If everything is connected correctly, you should see the audio levels start rising in Audalyzer. What you want is for the average level of the audio to be around dB and with a peak of no more than -5dB, so increase the audio control on your playback device until you get to that level.
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