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09 Feb 19 - 12:40 PM (#3975730) Subject: Tech: Laptop help From: Jim Carroll My PC has gone belly-up and is in for repair so I'm forced to use my Lenovo Ideapad Laptop (hate-hate-hate) I was never able to import sound to digitise tapes etc as I wasn't sure how to switch off the built in mike - when I finally managed it I found I couldn't import anything onto my Adobe Audition software My laptop comes with two mini-jack inputs - one for headphones - fine, the other, for mike - dead as Jacob Marley Can I import sound from a tape recorder, etc into a Lenovo - if so, how ? Help would be much appreciated Thanks Jim Carroll |
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09 Feb 19 - 01:27 PM (#3975738) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: DaveRo If it has USB, buy an external USB soundcard with a line input. If the laptop runs Windows there is plenty of choice on ebay, for example those branded 'Creative Soundblaster'. Make sure it has drivers for your version of Windows. I used a 'Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB soundcard' (which is one a the very few which runs under Linux) when I had to record on a laptop which didn't have a line-in socket. It had several inputs and its own headphone socket and volume control. |
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09 Feb 19 - 01:32 PM (#3975740) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Jon Freeman Is this one where one of your personal recorders (eg. Zoom) and USB could help you out? -- Totally OT but I like dad's (running Linux) Lenovo Thinkpad. Not a posh one but still a better build quality than my faster Asus. |
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09 Feb 19 - 01:33 PM (#3975741) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Jon Freeman Dave beat me to it... |
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09 Feb 19 - 01:37 PM (#3975743) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: punkfolkrocker Jim - if you are dipping your toes in USB audio interfaces, The budget price Behringer range are gaining popularity for first time users. http://www.musictribe.com/Categories/Behringer/Computer-Audio/Interfaces/c/Interfaces-123403?group=Interfaces&colExpFlag=,Interf |
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09 Feb 19 - 01:39 PM (#3975745) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Dave the Gnome I have a USB sound dongle, Jim. PM me your address and I will email it to you. |
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09 Feb 19 - 02:04 PM (#3975752) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Mr Red I bought a USB dongle that worked faultlessly on recordings. You have to find it in audacity. Has in and out and is isolated AFAIK |
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09 Feb 19 - 02:10 PM (#3975753) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Jon Freeman Again OT but DaveRo, on re reading. I used a 'Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB soundcard' (which is one a the very few which runs under Linux) I think quite a few USB sound devices (anything snd-usb?) will work on Linux these days. I've not used much and I've had some stuff a while... but known to work here are the same card you mentioned (which I'd give away if I found it), Zooms H4 and H6 - the latter in stereo and in multi channel mode, Yamaha Mixers MW10C and MG166CX USB and an Edirol MIDI UM-2 interface. |
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09 Feb 19 - 02:53 PM (#3975758) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Jim Carroll That's why I love this forum - many thanks all there's a pint or ten waiting for anybody who finds themselves in the region of Miltown Malbay Jim |
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09 Feb 19 - 03:32 PM (#3975763) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: GUEST,Grishka Most operating systems have a sound control window, usually reachable by clicking on a little loudspeaker symbol in the bottom right corner of the screen. Otherwise from "Start" -> "System settings" menu items, or similar. This window may offer you an ON/OFF checkbox and a slider for input volume; one set for each sound input plug. If you only see the ones for output devices, there may be a little button or menu item labeled "Input" or similar. Good luck! |
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09 Feb 19 - 07:48 PM (#3975795) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: GUEST,.gargoyle Sooooo Happy to see Linux is still used by Mudcatters. It is easy to view transparent Country of source Previous and foreward isp Close enough to unix to run a root. Sincerely, Gargoyle go to the google inside link and you will be blown away. |
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10 Feb 19 - 02:47 AM (#3975821) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: DaveRo Even if you can resurrect the microphone input, it's not the same as a line-in input - different sensitivity and impedance. Decent sound cards have both, and most laptops used to have both. Some laptops now only have a combined headphone/microphone port for a headset - the mic is mono. |
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10 Feb 19 - 08:33 AM (#3975883) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Jon Freeman I know that at least one of the two laptops here use the combined jack, Dave but it's not really an issue here. Dad's needs are just playback and I think Bluetooth provides the best solution there. Or at least he can play to his headphones, the Yamaha base under the tv and to a Pioneer amp that way. At least when he wants to and I tend to have to set things up for him (not difficult but he can forget how to do things). Of what we have, the Zoom H6 would be my most likely device if I wanted to record audio to the laptop. The base unit has 4 combined XLR/TRS and an 1/8" line in. |
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10 Feb 19 - 12:38 PM (#3975938) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: Mr Red this is the USB dongle that I have |
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10 Feb 19 - 01:19 PM (#3975950) Subject: RE: Tech: Laptop help From: DaveRo Jon Freeman wrote: I think quite a few USB sound devices (anything snd-usb?) will work on Linux these days.You're right. I'm out of date. I bought my USB soundcard in 2006, when very few worked with Linux - you had to research the chipset. I suppose the clue - for example with that dongle of Mr Red's - is that it says it doesn't need a driver to install. |