I have a Mackie d.2 (minus the firewire - I don’t have a firewire card on my lappy anyway) and an audio8dj soundcard, and I am having trouble with my recording…
I am using the booth as the out for the mixer to soundcard for recording purposes and it sounds awful. Too bassy, muffled and generally crap. It isn’t clipping in Traktor or at the mixer, I have messed around with the volume of the booth controls to no avail, nothbiung I do seems to have any iimpact.
I have enclosed a picture of the rear of the mackie if anyone has any ideas (I don’t have firewire, remember…)
few questions so i know what you’er doing;
is this a dvs set-up?
what software?
what program are you recording in? and is it set-up correctly? e.g no eq tweaks on incoming signal, set as line input rather than mic (sometimes makes a difference) etc…
Traktor Pro.
Mackie d.2 with Kontrol X1 (no DVS)
Recording in Traktor.
Straight from booth (TRS) into input 1/2 (RCA) of the audio8dj
I assume I have it as line, not mic as the sound to the main channel is great…
You got those Input Mode LEDs. If it says “Timecode Vinyl”/“Phono” you’re in the wrong mode. You probably have to change it using the little software utility instead of the hardware button on the Audio8, though (in case you have “Software Lock” activated).
You could run a simple phono to minijack cable from the mixer output (the phono ones by the xlr in main output) to your laptops line/mic in and use Audacity to record the mix
I just thought keeping it simple and not overloading the audio8 with ins and outs and shake it all abouts…
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