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Re: [IRCA] Mobile DX Recording Question
At 19:33 02-09-16, you wrote:
If you have $20 or so hanging around, try a USB audio adapter Marc:
https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-External-Channel-Audio-Adapter/dp/B004HXGJ3S
Has worked fine for me in the past; Total Recorder should see it as
another audio input, more likely several.
I was using it with a Windows 7 machine, but it appears there are
drivers for Windows 8 and 10 too.
best wishes,
Nick
Mark Connelly has built for me an amplified whip antenna with
magnetic base that I can mount on the roof of my car for oceanfront
DXpeditions. We tested it in an RFI quiet zone - the local
cemetery! - and it works fine with my JRC NRD-525 receiver.
The problem is recording DX using Total Recorder on my laptop. The
laptop does not have an audio "line in" jack so I have been trying
to use the microphone jack. It records but the audio playback is
quite distorted. On the laptop I get the following message from
Total Recorder:
"The level of the source signal is too high. Possibly the
characteristics of the sound source do not match those of the
soundboard input (e.g. instead of soundboard's line-in connector,
the microphone-in connector is used.) Recording is possible, but
the quality of the recorded sound may be low."
Right. I noticed that. The question is what is the solution to
the problem. 20 years ago I had an "attenuating cable" from Radio
Shack that might solve the problem. But, like a dummy, I through it
away thinking that, "I'll never have any use for that." I doubt
that RS still carries this product.
So, is there a Total Recorder setting that might work? Or, should I
scrap Total Recorder and buy a portable digital recorder? If so,
which one? A digital recorder (with a line-in jack of course) would
be better in that it is smaller and would take up less space in the car.
Any help appreciated.
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, MA
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