Oh - and it's good for exporting six channel wav files too! (and five, and four, etc...)
Eureka! :yikes
Oh - and it's good for exporting six channel wav files too! (and five, and four, etc...)
In case you haven't got there yet:
Go to top line, and select Edit, then Preferences. Under Import/Export, uncheck "Always mix all tracks down to Stereo or Mono channel(s)". When you export a file (at least as a wav, haven't tried other formats) you can assign each track to channels. In your time line you should have six mono tracks. 1-6 go as follows: FL, FR, Centre, Sub, BL, BR. I can't remember if I tried encoding as four channel; from what I remember used silent channels (possibly tried blank at some point) for centre and sub.
So, I've been ripping vinyl (terminology??) from turntable via USB to Audacity. I thought all was well, until I put on an older Priest album. In particular, the song The Ripper starts out with some fast dramatic left to right panning of Rob Halford's voice. It's a very obvious and dramatic moment. When I went to play my music via Foobar, I realized there were elements of the recording simply muted way down. LIke that 2 second panning of his voice. They are faintly audible, but clearly not right. What the heck could be causing this?
Of course, I went right back to my album and played it and sure enough, it's all there. So, it's either a setting in Audacity...and I cannot imagine what it is....or something else. Since the connection from my turntable to my laptop is a very simple, single cable (USB)...no chance of something mixed up there.
If you were not super familiar with the music, you would never know anything were wrong - that is to say, all other elements of the recording sound spot on. Any ideas QQ?
Intriguing! There is a Vocal Remover under Effects, but that is a post processing action.
I'd try recording just that bit again and monitor via headphones from Audacity as you record.
oH, bummer. I really thought someone would step up and say...hey, GOS....change this setting. Oh well...not sure what to do.
I don't need to use headphones. There is a setting in Audacity where the audio is coming from the laptop, not the stereo...and for sure...it doesn't sound right. Yet, if I turn up the stereo to overrun the laptop...it sounds normal. Ugh....
your laptop mono speaker(s) maybe?
No, they are stereo and I have it set on stereo. ??
hmm.. does laptop have any DSP settings like pseudo surround effect/SRS etc..?
It is fixable. I've had the same problem. I can't remember what the cause was though. Hmm, maybe I can. If your soundcard is set to high res input or quality or something, (beyond 48k???) that may be a problem. Your pre-amp USB out will only be in the region of 44.1k.
Also in Audacity: Edit, Preferences, Devices. Look at the bottom of this window and check Recording and Channels is set to 2 (Stereo).
I already have/had it set to 2-stereo. The soundcard on my laptop appears to be set at CD quality or 44k ish. Also, I did a very NOOB test and played that same song from youtube through my laptop and of course, all the sounds are intact, unlike when I play it through my laptop via Audacity. Does that then point to a problem with Audacity? I'm still too much of a NOOB to know the answer to that....
Hang on a minute.. I have to set my monitor out on Audacity to off in software play through or it crashes or glitches the program every time.. but I noticed in the past that when I did use it in such a way for Stereo files, Audacity played back everything in a kind of "Dual Mono".. so that would explain the lack of panning, it doesn't playback in true Stereo.
Problem solved! (I think.. I hope!)
NEXT!!???
Oh and PS. Have you tried setting it to record at any other resolution?
Or is 44.1 / 16, the only one the DAC via USB can do on your Pro-Ject?
(I'm a 96 / 24 zealot, you see.. LMAO.. )
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