Hi!
I’m trying to set up a vinyl ripping set-up with the following hardware:
Stanton Arkiv stylus and needle
Technics 1210 MK3D
Allen & Heath XONE 4D
USB cable that came bundled with Allen & Heath XONE 4D
Apple MacBook
I have recorded a sample track (Dennis Ferrer – Red Room) to try this set-up out and I’m, well, not pleased. You can listen to it here:
It sounds a bit flat and tinny. If you download the WAVE from soundcloud and open it in Audacity you’ll see that the waveform (in Waveform view) is very small and flat.
I have recorded the signal without any EQ from the mixer (by using the Pre button on the input source so that the signal is sent straight to the soundcard output right after the pre-amp). I have configured the drivers to output at 24-bit 96khz and Audacity to record at 24-bit 96khz.
Please note that the stylus is absolutely new, only used once so far (when I recorded the track above).
I have tried sending the signal through ”post fader”, adding some gain to it, but it still comes out very flat. Running the Amplify effect on the recording in Audacity only affords me a 2.4 dB adjustment without any clipping.
So, what’s wrong with my set-up?
Thanks!
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