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Hi everyone in Virtual DJ Land, I am trying to work out how to record the Karaoke Singer so I can play a snippet of their performance back to them as they go back to their seats. I can record the Karaoke Track & play it back but the singers voice doesn't record. I`m using a laptop & mixer with wireless microphones, any help would be appreciated, Thanks
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 4:50 pm
Depends entirely on your setup. Is your mixer being used by VDJ in external mixer setup, or completely separate. If separate, does your audio from VDJ go into the mixer as well as the microphones? If so and your mixer has an audio out? if so can connect as a line-in back to VDJ and record that, or you could USB out of mixer into laptop and record in Audacity? There are a hundred options depending on what equipment you have.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 4:56 pm
Thanks for reply Andy, I`m not using VDJ in external mixer set up (would I be better using it) I simply connect cable from mixer into laptop headphone socket, would I be better using the mixer USB & built-in sound card? I`m using Asio4all sound card in VDJ. Can`t I use VDJ without having to record in Audacity? The only thing missing on playback is the singers voice.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 5:38 pm
Thanks for reply Andy, I`m not using VDJ in external mixer set up (would I be better using it) I simply connect cable from mixer into laptop headphone socket, would I be better using the mixer USB & built-in sound card? I`m using Asio4all sound card in VDJ. Can`t I use VDJ without having to record in Audacity? The only thing missing on playback is the singers voice.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 5:52 pm
Unless your mixer is a dj mixer, the inbuilt soundcard probably won't cope with low latency. So does your audio come out of your laptop headphone socket into your mixer? And then your microphone is plugged into mixer on seperate channel?
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:10 pm
I would recommend you get some kind of usb audio interface and take the sound out on usb. Quality will be much better and then you can use headphone socket as a line in for the microphone.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:14 pm
Thanks Andy. I`ll have a play round tonight and see what I can do.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:38 pm
Andy7689 wrote :
use headphone socket as a line in


NO! Please don't try and plug a mic into the headphone socket. You could potentially kill it.

The headphone socket is an OUTPUT. A mic needs to be plugged into an INPUT. Also, plugging a mic into a line input won't get you very far.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:49 pm
AdionPRO InfinityCTOMember since 2006
groovindj wrote :
Andy7689 wrote :
use headphone socket as a line in


NO! Please don't try and plug a mic into the headphone socket. You could potentially kill it.

The headphone socket is an OUTPUT. A mic needs to be plugged into an INPUT. Also, plugging a mic into a line input won't get you very far.


Many recent laptops (I know mine works that way) have a single port that can be switched from the laptop's audio software between line out, headphone out, mic in or line in, so that should be no problem.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:55 pm
Yeah I thought I had seen both symbols on some
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:56 pm
Some laptops do, yes - but considering we don't know what laptop he has, it's safer to warn him against damaging something.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:57 pm
AdionPRO InfinityCTOMember since 2006
To answer the original question, we also need to know how the microphones are connected and set up.
You say wireless, but wireless to where, and how is this connected?
How is the audio setup in vdj configured?
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 6:59 pm
The VDJ set up. Speakers Only Internal Sound Card.The Wireless Microphones are plugged into external mixer. If I use the USB Mixer To Laptop will that record voice or do I need to change settings in VDJ. Thanks
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 7:57 pm
It would help if you specified what mixer you're using....
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 8:36 pm
I`m using the Alto Professional ZMX164 FX USB Mixer
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 9:34 pm
OK so did you not read the manual for the mixer?

I've just found the web page, and the first thing it says under the USB Audio Interface heading is "Capture your live mix with your laptop and computer recording software by simply connecting a USB cable". That's what you want to do, right?
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 9:40 pm
Thanks for the advice Groovindj, yes I did read the manual & I have connected mixer usb cable to laptop & like I said the Karaoke track records no problem just no vocals my mistake seems to be thinking I could do it all through VDJ but that maybe is not possible so I`ll need Audacity Software to solve it. Thanks
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 9:51 pm
djhill147 wrote :
Karaoke track records no problem just no vocals


It's probably just your VDJ audio config then. If you're literally just pressing 'record' in VDJ then it will record the output of the VDJ mixer - and your mics are not going through the VDJ mixer. They're connected to the Alto - so you need to change your VDJ audio config to record from the Alto, not from VDJ.

Set up a record channel in VDJ and choose the Alto as the source.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 9:56 pm
yes I`m just pressing record & it records all I play in VDJ.....I`m using the Mixer Sound Card USB Audio CODEC How do I Set up Record Channel?
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 10:04 pm
You've been a member here since 2008 (and presumably using VDJ) and you don't know how to use it?

Start by reading the manual. There's an online version now.
 
Posted Mon 13 Mar 17 @ 10:09 pm
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