Recording Audio On Imac????? |
Thu 14 Aug 2003, 06:13
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 05-Aug 03 From: Bayview - AU Member No.: 22,492 |
Hi, I've been playing guitar for a few years now and want to record some simple tracks on my iMac. I always thought this was supposed to be easy but am now having all the trouble in the world, I'm sure it is something small and obvious so I hope someone can help me.
I have an iMac 400 DV with a G3 processor, 320Mb of RAM and plenty of hard drive space left. I plug my guitar into my amp, run a lead from the audio-out on my amp to the audio in on the iMac. The audio settings have been set to use the Audio In...prettly simple stuff...I thought. I have a copy of Cubase on the computer and whenever I try to simply record a simple track through Cubase it will record a very patchy audio file, IE: you hear 2 or 3 seconds of audio followed by a total blank period for several seconds, another couple of seconds of audio followed by blank and so on..... What am I doing wrong?????? Do I need to upgrade the Audio Card or is it maybe the processor simply can't handle recording something through Cubase? Sure, this is no longer a great computer I am using but I'm not asking it to split the atom, just record a couple of tracks. I'm not too keen to spend a lot of money only to find out that the problem was caused by something else such as a simple setting in Cubase or something so any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance... |
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Fri 15 Aug 2003, 05:00
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 495 Joined: 12-Oct 01 From: Chandler - US Member No.: 2,003 |
It must be something with cubase... I use a iMac indigo 350 mHz, 192 Mb of ram, using Metro 5, running the sound from my mixer directly to the sound in..... no problems. I never had any luck useing cubace, so I went with something that worked.
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Fri 15 Aug 2003, 06:22
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 05-Aug 03 From: Bayview - AU Member No.: 22,492 |
Thanks Kaboombahchuck,
Maybe I'll have to play around with ProTools free and see if I can get that to work. Are there any other similar software packages around that are easy to use and seem to run OK? |
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Sat 23 Aug 2003, 10:03
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Moderator Group: Team Posts: 370 Joined: 19-Mar 03 From: Umeå - SE Member No.: 14,645 |
Thats NOT a very good thing to do.
The signal fom your amp out is NOT very suitable for recording purposes even if you can somtimes use it that way: Two reasons: 1:) The signal level of the amp out MUST match the sensivity of your iMac audio in. ( check the tech specs of your amp & your iMac ) 2:) The impedance must match each other. I.E. a low impedance output can drive a high impedance input ( albeit with low gain as result ) However if your gtr-pre-amp out is geared towards a 10 Kilo-Ohm load. Connecting a low impedance 200 Ohm mic-input will put you into deep shit. The signal levels and impedance-levels must match each other in a appropiate way - or else your hosed. Thats way you really should consider an usb audio-interface if you want to record audion into your iMac. Bear in mind though that an old iMac 400 G3 is really a bit slow to do any more demanding audio work. Depends on your needs I guess. Cheers: Dixicechicken -------------------- ==================
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