Is it? Shit. I’m afraid I have to record via the microphone input on my laptop using Audacity at very low levels- means it’s hard to get the levels right.
If you could suggest a better way I’d be much appreciative.
If you’ve got a spare £20 I’d reccomend buying a USB soundcard. You can get a standard creative soundblaster for that sort of money and it will give you plenty of inputsand outputs. When you don’t need it you can detach it and bung it in the bag/draw etc.
Is it? Shit. I’m afraid I have to record via the microphone input on my laptop using Audacity at very low levels- means it’s hard to get the levels right.
If you could suggest a better way I’d be much appreciative.
You should have a line in on your laptop somewhere…
yeah most laptops seem to now only have microphone inputs and headphone outputs.
IME laptop sound hardware is noisy (due to close proximity of analogue audio circuitry to digitial circuitry which cause interference) – it is mostly intended for conferencing/VOIP which doesn’t require hi-fi audio quality.
the external USB sound hardware is a much better idea…