Hi all, just got my decks and records back off me mate. Things have moved on since i last had them, over 5 years ago!!. Just want to know, is there any way i can record my mixing on to cd rather than tapes? i have a lap top and ive heard that theres a program you can get so that you can plug your lap top into your mixer?

Thanks for any help, Smudge.

 

Get yourself a copy of Sound Forge, or something similar.
Use a phono cable from the mixer output to your soundcard line in (do not use mic in!) record it with the program, then save it as a wav file and burn.

 

Nice one, thanks Martyn.

 

I always worry that if I record through my pc where its a bit slow and fecks up sometimes that i won't get a decent recording??

 

I used a hifi seperate cd recorder, top quality and speeds spot on,

have had some good some crappy results using a pc cd burner?

 

Didnt think about that!!!! think that might be the way to go

 

Yup, this what I do. works well

 

I use sound forge also and it works very well, i have no problems with qualitity

 

GET YOUR SELF a copy of audio lab
its the dogs matey

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...387138-1687138

i use it to convert old tapes to cds but you carnt copy the master cd..
dont no why but its worth the money
like a mixing lab cool

 

Ive never had problems with skipping or bad quality.
What do you mean about it going abit slow? The only reason you could get skipping on a recording is if the pc is slow or doesnt have much disc space left. My old P133 used to skip when recording simply cause it was slow!
A good tip when recording is to simply not use it for anything else at the same time and close all other programs you are not using.

 

Oh, and dont encode it to mp3 before you burn it to cd or you will loose high and low frequencies

 

Exactly as above, my old pc was not upto scratch and it did "pause" for a millisecond simply because the cpu / memory was being maxed out with all the data coming in