Guest Anonymous Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 Hi! My name is Mathias, I'm from Vienna, Austria, and I've got a question about recording music from a computer to a MD. You say on your HP that I don't have to set recording level if I'm recording from digital source with a TOSLINK cable. Well, I've got a Guillemot MaxiSound Fortissimo Soundcard which has an "Optical Out", which means a TOSLINK Output Port if I understood your HP correctly. Now I tried to record a playlist from WinAmp to my MD-Player, one of the expensive Sony models, and the result was extremely silent. Now I was surprised, because I had thought that I wouldn't have to set recording levels! So I set the volume a bit louder in WinAmp and tried again. Now the first track was ok on the MD, but the second track, a hard rock song, was much too loud and in a bad quality. So I had to adjust recording level after each track. This can't be the sense of digital recording! Could you please tell me what I have to do, when I just want to create a playlist and get it onto my MD, with no track too loud or too silent? Is it possible that my soundcard is just not capable of doing this? If so, I would buy a new one, but which? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darK (aka Tharaka) Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 what recorder is it... because in some recorders (high-end) you can set it to manually adjust recording level.. and it might have been set.. so u'll have to set it back to automatic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 digital recording from a soundcard using .mp3s will still require levels to be set. You can try finding an mp3 normalizer program, which converts them to the correct level (then you need to check the levels once, to make sure it's right). Digital recording from a CD player using premastered CDs doesn't need the level set, as the CDs are already at the right level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 21, 2002 Report Share Posted December 21, 2002 Ok, thanks for the hint with the normalizer, I'll try to get one. I just couldn't find this clear answer to my question on any website! A merry Christmas Matze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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