Recording some backing tracks onto cassette for the "Big Gig" on Saturday and the qaulity is not very good. The main reason I assume is the general PC/digital background mush. The other reason is I think my little cassette recorder has some automatic noise limiting circuit which seems to fire up when there is a few microseconds of silence and it causes a lot of shushing. I'm recording direct from the ear socket of the PC to mic socket of the cassette player but the best results are from using a seperate mic next to a speaker but that is not ideal.
Tips anyone please?
Needless to say I think I'll be OK for the "Big Gig" on Saturday but I will need to give this some serious thought on how I'm going to proceed in the future.
One further problem I need to work out in the future is that at present I'm feeding my cassette into the aux input of my MicroCube and my harp mic into the mic input as you'd expect, then I'm playing the MicroCube into a Stereo Mic positioned a few inches away which is driving a 100W Stereo Amp with Speaker towers. There are too many links in the chain and I feel feedback is going to be a problem if I'm not careful.
I tried plugging my microCube from the REC OUT directly into the mic socket of the bigger amp but the digital mush on the cassette made it sound pretty awful.
Last Edited by on Sep 16, 2010 2:52 PM
You might want to look for an MP3 player that will connect straight to the speakers (maybe with a 1/8th to 1/4 adapter and a 1/4 chord?). If you can transfer your tracks as files instead of recording them I think you'll get much better sound. I actually have to figure this out too. The real trick is doing it on a budget.
Yes I bought an MP3 player with that in mind but they have been doctored by the manufacturers to keep the volume down to a level which will not cause hearing problems. Unfortunately they just aren't loud enough. 2.5mW isn't any good at all and I don't want to push that through another little amp before it gets to my MicroCube.
Last Edited by on Sep 16, 2010 3:37 PM
