Transferring vinyl to PC, guitar very low in mix

[miniman]

uknick said:

miniman said:

If you go into Device Manager, what driver is listed for audio input?

As per my screen shot above. The usb devices maps to the microphone input. I assume a line in would map to the Realtek device.

I mean if you expand the audio devices here, what do you see?



I would try uninstalling the device via Device Manager, restart so it gets picked up again, and see what driver options are available eg High Definition Audio Controller

[uknick]

Miniman, this is it what it shows for the new device before uninstalling



I uninstalled and then reconnected and nothing had changed

[OutInTheShed]

I'd suggest rying a different application, like ionaudio
https://www.ionaudio.com/ez-converter

There are others.

[miniman]

uknick said:

Miniman, this is it what it shows for the new device before uninstalling



I uninstalled and then reconnected and nothing had changed

When you reinstalled them, did you get a choice of drivers ?

[uknick]

miniman said:

When you reinstalled them, did you get a choice of drivers ?

No.

[uknick]

OutInTheShed said:

I'd suggest rying a different application, like ionaudio
https://www.ionaudio.com/ez-converter

There are others.

I'll try that one, but I've already tried at least 3; Audacity, HDOGG and one I can't remember the name of. All had the same issue.

[TonyRPH]

The problem is not with the app - the problem lies with the device, and the way Windows 10 is addressing it (a driver issue basically).

@uknick - I already said a few posts back that you can have this creative SB Live 24 USB interface for the cost of postage.

I tested it yesterday with Windows 10 (and I found drivers for it) and it works perfectly.

You would still need your Project phono preamp - however you would take the analogue out form the preamp into the Sound blaster which is then plugged into your PC.

Here's some screen captures I did, where you can see it's working perfectly on both channels.

Edited by TonyRPH on Sunday 19th May 16:21

[uknick]

I've got to the bottom of it.

Tony, you were quite right to highlight the Pro-Ject box was not compatible with Windows beyond XP.

This got me thinking so I checked the new box I bought a couple of weeks ago. It turns out this box is only compatible up to Windows 7. To be fair to the manufacturer they do say this in their information. I just thought all USB devices were fully plug and play with drivers being constantly updated. Clearly not. Now I've tried it, it works fine with Windows 7.

The other mistake I made was thinking I'd tried the new one using USB on the Windows 7 machine. Clearly I hadn't, which led me to wasting a lot of you good PH people's time.

Where does this leave me? Thanks for your generous offer Tony, but I'll use the old Windows 7 machine to record the albums using the preamp that gives the best sound. If this is the Pro-Ject one I'll have to use the line in.

[TonyRPH]

Interestingly, when I first connected the Soundbaster yesterday, Windows installed default drivers for it, but it too was identified as a microphone just like your Project box. It also didn't work as expected (distortion was on the high side).

Once I installed the correct drivers, it worked like a charm (as you see above).

It's unfortunate that Project have not provided any drivers for later versions of Windows - however this is not uncommon - I have a perfectly good Canon scanner, which is only supported up to Windows XP, so if I want to use it I have to do in a Windows XP virtual machine.

This is unnecessarily consigning perfectly good hardware to the tip which is a poor show.