audio lab not working on my new laptop-vinyl to digital

gcsportstherapy wrote on 6/26/2012, 10:04 AM

Hi All

I need serious help! I was using an old version of audio lab on my toshiba laptop, until it died. I bought an Asus X53E Laptop, (Intel Core i5 Sandybridge 2430M 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD,  Windows 7 Home Premium 64) and installed the old audio lab software. I used a mini jack plugs, with a splitter to listen to the music, loop from microphone to  Aiwa amp headphone socket.  Before the recording started the record levels were picking up/showing input. After recording, when I played the album file  back, the sound was very distorted and went high and low the sound appears wishy washy/ fade in and out. This happens all the time

I got the new free version audio lab on trial and exactly the same thing happened. The old version worked great on the Toshiba 32 bit?. I am a techno dinosaur. I just want my motown tapes and records on cd.

Anybody ....help! Thanks

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johnebaker wrote on 6/26/2012, 2:55 PM

Hi

The Asus has only 2 audio sockets  there is one for the mic and one for headphones. 

I presume that you are using the mic input for your audio in which case you are overloading the input with too high a level signal - this is what will cause the high/low sound and distortion as the  AGC (Automatic Gain Control) on the sound card tries to maintain the signal level constant and fails.

I would suggest your only option is to look at USB audio converters with mic and line in to get a decent signal into the Asus.

John

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gcsportstherapy wrote on 6/26/2012, 4:08 PM

Thanks John. Without sounding too much of an idiot. How do I do that? Yes I sound like an idiot.

Procyon wrote on 6/26/2012, 7:32 PM

You do an internet search for "audio interface".

gcsportstherapy wrote on 7/3/2012, 2:40 AM

John and Procyon

Thank you to you both. Think that I might have to leave it. I googled both and started to get confused with all the different stuff. I will just have to be content playing the vinyl. Regards