Cant hear vocals after rcoding

nel-e-nel wrote on 5/9/2014, 10:20 AM

Hi, I have an M-Audio Fast track, samson microphone, windows 8.1 pro, and MMM 2014. My problem is I cant hear any vocals after i record them. I can hear my voice coming out of the speakers, I can see my vocals being recorded on the track, but when I push play, no sound comes out. I have 8 gigs of ram if that helps any and the latest drivers for my M-Audio. Any help would be great, I'm ready to start recording over my fresh beats. Thanks.

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browj2 wrote on 5/9/2014, 1:03 PM

Hi,

Please describe your setup. I assume that you have the mic plugged into the M-Audio Fast Track Pro. You should be monitoring the sound through headphones attached to the Fast Track, not through your computer. You should hear nothing on your computer speakers when you record or when you play back. Check all of your settings to make sure that monitoring is on in MMM and that the output is going to the M-Audio. Let me know how you make out.

Former user wrote on 5/9/2014, 6:49 PM

Do you have oother audio/midi tracks recorded on this workpiece or are you just doing vocals first ? If you have aan opened track and see sinse wave indicaating your vocal moving across athe track and you then stop recording,if the sine wave stays in place on track, then you have recorded it. Is athe track muted ? do yo have volumne turnedup on all places that need to be turned up ? are your earphones plugged in correctly

browj2 wrote on 5/10/2014, 8:45 AM

Hi,

Can you hear anything else in MMM?

Try dragging a soundpool onto the arranger and playing it. If you can't hear it then the problem is somewhere with the settings.

Also, try plugging in headphones, just to see what happens.

I will get back to you a bit later with my setup.

nihon94 wrote on 5/10/2014, 9:55 AM

In short, open your Audio Recording, check if you have selected AUDIO DRIVER in your case it should be M-Audio.

To confirm if your Music Maker setting is proper or not use any pre recorded audio file drop on arranger and play. If you can hear means Music Maker settings is fine otherwise check PROGRAM SETTINGS under General did you select proper asio driver and under Audio/Midi did you select proper Input and Output devices?

Other than Music Maker settings you must confirm Control Panel of computer SOUND/RECORDING here you should choose microphone.

nihon94

browj2 wrote on 5/10/2014, 10:51 AM

Hi,

Here are the screen shots that go with what nihon94 indicated. The only difference is that in the Control Panel of computer SOUND/RECORDING here you should choose M-Audio, as your microphone is connected to the M-Audio device. Mine comes up by default when I start MMM. Make sure that everything is connected before starting MMM. Make sure that on the Fast Track the monitoring knob is set to mix Direct and USB; Direct is sound going into the Fast Track, USB is sound coming back from the computer. Note that ASIO4ALL probably does not work with the M-Audio device, at least it doesn't work with by M-Track. If you are recording and have the output from the Fast Track going to the speakers connected to it, you are liable to get some feedback, thus using headphones is preferable. Let us know if this helps.

Former user wrote on 5/10/2014, 7:04 PM

You are the only one with this problem at this time....bellieve me, your issue has come up tons of times and usually (99%) of the time, something is connected wrong or an option isn't selected, or its the wrong one. With just your PC, a mic, and MM2014 properly cinfigured, you can record vocals....does this tell you something ? Wiht Nihon and browj2 assisting you.....buddy, you got some of the best.. It will work....eventually. Hang tough

Former user wrote on 5/12/2014, 7:13 PM

I guess I need to be more direct.....You, nel-e-nel , have something connected wrong, or an option not properly configured. Bottom line....go find it and fix it

johnebaker wrote on 5/25/2014, 12:43 PM

Looking at the image you linked to I would suggest your 'scratchiness' is actually overload distortion - the top and bottom of the audio waves should not be flat as seen in the image and once you get this there is really no recovery option except to re-record at a lower level..

Try turning down the recording level in the M-Audio and or MMM - from a sound engineer friend of mine he recommends the maximum level on the meters should not peak above -6dB and if necessary try -12dB, you should definitely should not be hitting the orange or red - where you are definitely heading for distortion.

HTH

John