• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Trying to record audiofrom web!

N

nightfly61

Guest
I've tried everything. I installed an EMU 1212m soundcard & daughter card to my Windows XP, ran a patch cord from the front headphone jack to a small mixing board (yes I've got decent levels,) then from "board out" to the EMU card. Still nothing. I read the manual, messed with the settings, reset them to default, but no "input" will work going into the soundcard. I'm trying to record audio from youtube on the same computer I'm playing it on to collect audio bits for imaging stuff. Any suggestions? Thanks.
 
The 1212 should be full-duplex - allowing you do to what you need it to do. You probably don't have the correct input selected for recording - maybe you've enabled digital in instead of analog in.

But if all you're doing is capturing audio from YouTube - just capture the videos instead, then extract the audio from that. http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+capture will get you started.
 
Even simpler - simply set your record source as "Wave Out Mix". It will record whatever comes out of your speakers.

I suppose that may not work for all sound cards, but it works nicely for mine.
 
SirRoxalot said:
Even simpler - simply set your record source as "Wave Out Mix". It will record whatever comes out of your speakers.

I suppose that may not work for all sound cards, but it works nicely for mine.
Click to expand...
Sir...can you give step by step? Sorry, I'm not too good at this. Thanks.
 
SirRoxalot said:
Even simpler - simply set your record source as "Wave Out Mix". It will record whatever comes out of your speakers.

I suppose that may not work for all sound cards, but it works nicely for mine.
Click to expand...
Mine too...and it's a direct connection internally...in my case, yielding well in excess of 86db s/n...sounds nice.
 
SirRoxalot said:
Even simpler - simply set your record source as "Wave Out Mix". It will record whatever comes out of your speakers.

I suppose that may not work for all sound cards, but it works nicely for mine.
Click to expand...

I would have suggested that to the OP except the 1212 has its own mixing app. Help may be available at this link: http://www.emu.com/support/files/storage/1820_1.81_(EN).pdf
 
If your sound card and software support it, all you have to do is double-click on the volume control icon in the system tray (lower right-hand corner of your XP screen). That will bring up the volume control mixer. Click on "Options", then "Properties". That will open a new screen.

Select the radio button for "Recording". See if there's a listing for "Wave Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix" or "Mono Mix". If so, make sure that it's checked. Click on "Okay". You'll now have the recording volume control on your screen. Check the "Select" box for "Wave Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix", adjust the volume, and you should be able to record into your favorite audio editor.

If you don't have a favorite audio editor, Audacity from Sourceforge.net is free, and pretty powerful.

If your sound card doesn't support "Wave Out Mix" or something similar, you can try Free Hi-Q Recorder. That's supposed to work with all OS, including Vista.
 
NightFly61...i agree with the others. You can record loopback without needs any external cables or mixers. The WaveOut is used for this on the recording properties. The only case might be on pro audio cards. They may not allow for loopback recording becuase they might not use the Windows mixer. In this case, refer to their mixer and see if you can create the loopback. Last resort is to create the loopback with a cable.
 
SirRoxalot said:
If your sound card and software support it, all you have to do is double-click on the volume control icon in the system tray (lower right-hand corner of your XP screen). That will bring up the volume control mixer. Click on "Options", then "Properties". That will open a new screen.

Select the radio button for "Recording". See if there's a listing for "Wave Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix" or "Mono Mix". If so, make sure that it's checked. Click on "Okay". You'll now have the recording volume control on your screen. Check the "Select" box for "Wave Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix", adjust the volume, and you should be able to record into your favorite audio editor.

If you don't have a favorite audio editor, Audacity from Sourceforge.net is free, and pretty powerful.

If your sound card doesn't support "Wave Out Mix" or something similar, you can try Free Hi-Q Recorder. That's supposed to work with all OS, including Vista.
Click to expand...
Thanks for all the suggestions, but still no luck. When I pull up my mixer there are no options at the top- just an option to upgrade from Soundblaser to Audigy & the ability to move the slide pots around.
With a streaming station playing I messed with input & output adjustments on my Adobe Audition 1.5 & get nothing- like when I click on "Wave In" it says "get 32 bit audio using: 3 byte Packed PCM, 4 byte pcm or 4 byte IEEE float. (?????) It also asks if I want to "try as WDM". I have no clue what any of this is.
Should I maybe uninstall that mixer & see if the one that came with Emu will take over? But even then I still get no sound going into Adobe 1.5. There's also stuff on the E-MU's in & output settings like S/PDIF Output format: either S/PDIF or AES/EBU. Again, I have no clue what all that is. It says nothing in the manual about how anything should be set. Thanks again.
I opened my tower to see if the cards were secure & they're fine.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom