Hey guys wondering if anybody can help, i’ve had a google and searched about but i think it’s better to just ask as i read mixed stuff.
I’ve just upgraded to scratch pro 2.
I’m using two 1210’s, Audio 8.
When i attempt to calibrate the decks 9/10 times it says “Unknown Medium - Low Input”, some times it works but usually loses track again pretty quickly.
Now i’m using pretty shitty carts/stylus (battered stanton 500’s), and my tables aren’t perfectly even, but records sound fine.
No problems with grounding, as records are fine (Grounded to A8 anyway). Tracking weights on 3.5 and 3.3 (I have mismatched headshells), antiskate 3.
Is the input to the adc just THAT low?
I’ve played on even more ghetto setups than mine using serato and never had this problem.
If it’s the carts, not a massive deal as i’m getting some m44’s anyway once i got the cash. (For a stop-gap, would these work Pardon our interruption... ?)
And one last question, i bought the A8 second hand on ebay - the “Input Mode” button doesn’t have the same click (or appear to actually do anything, leds don’t change) as the Source and Mic/Line, but is this just because scratch 2 doesn’t allow input switching outside of preferences? If not i’ve been jipped a bit.
Does the unknown medium thing occur on both decks?
Have you tried grounding the tables to the mixer and not the A8?
Have you checked the contacts on the needles/inside the tonearm? If not and they look a bit grubby then you should clean them.
The input mode button doesn’t work unless changed in preferences, I can’t remember where as I never use it. But there is a way for the button to work.
What mixer do you have?
Those needles would be ok as a temporary options, but they’re diamond shapes so they’re going to cut through your vinyl pretty quick, I’d just wait and save the money for the Shures if I were you.
Extremely weak input, had to have full gain on mixer and my studio soundcard (which feeds my monitors) to even hear it.
Yeah, intermittently with neither one being worse, the signal when it does get one barely lasts 10 seconds.
Yup, they were grounded to the mixer when i first tried it, thought A8 might change but hasn’t.
All clean, my needles and carts are battered (very noisy) but signal strength wise they perform perfectly with records.
I’m using a really shitty old Ecler thing i picked up for free, again works perfectly with records/line inputs though. The timecode doesn’t touch the mixer anyway does it?
Is it possible to try the mixer with a different sound card?
If I were you, I’d take the A8 to a music shop and try it on one of their mixers to see if you get the same results. If so, get onto Paypal and get a refund.
Something quite weird happens, when i flick to phono on the mixer and just play the vinyl through, traktors deck inputs show a nice hot signal, when i switch back to line on the mixer, so that it’s actually traktors output, the signal drops. Also, it sounds like the highs are being cut a bit, or quality degraded, hard to tell because it’s so quiet and when gained to fuck it’s just horrible.
The mixer should not have any effect on how turntables work with Traktor, since it’s later on in the chain (after Traktor’s outputs).
If you’re just testing the Audio 8 the mixer should not even be connected tbh. Put turntables directly into the Audio 8, and use Internal Mixing Mode with headphones/speakers connected directly to the A8.
Yea I get what your thinking, you think your line inputs on the mixer might be bad. Still wouldnt affect why you are getting a weak timecode signal. For your reference, the input mode button doesnt work the way you think…basically all I’m saying is that it’s fine. Just make sure the audio 8 is set to “timecode vinyl” on channels A/B (or 1,2,3,4), if they are please make sure you are using the MK2 Vinyl, because depending on when you bought Scratch pro, the original timecode vinyls (ones that used to come w/ the audio 8 in the scratch package) will not work.
Went through setup video, everything was identical (bar the XLR connections on multicores).
So i removed everything from the mixer, timecode signals are now working (left is a bit weaker, but that needle is worse i’m sure).
Plugged back in line inputs to mixer, plugged back in the phono outs.
EVERYTHING WORKING!
Very bizzare…
I was actually thinking the phono amps on the A8 were fucked, or some kind of interference from my mix, which it appears to have been (oddly gone after unplugging-repluggin :/).
I’m using MK1 timecode, but everything is working fine now!
bad cables possibly…or maybe something swapped. BTW, I personally am not a fan of the multicores, the couple different sets I used leaked timcode signal into the Line input coming into the mixer. Could be just a bad couple pairs I ran into, but I don’t even think they come with any of the new scratch packages anymore
Everything was working, then after trying with a record (switching to phono on mixer) and going back to timecode (even with recalibration) the input signal went too low and started skipping.
Pulled out the phono-throughs, and the scopes shot back up.
So some interfere from the mixer, somehow it is feeding back, as soon as i plug either channel in, that channels timecode drops to low input.