Need Help Sampling into MPC 2000 Classic (Sounds Distorted)

I ordered an MPC 2000 classic off Ebay it arrived yesterday. So I start it up it boot from the Disk. Everything loads fine the screen has a line but i can see everything. Than i tried to record from my laptops headphone out with one of those rca to headphone jack y cables, I used two phono or rca to 1/4 adapters into the MPC. When im monitoring and i play a sound on my laptop its sounds super distorted and you can distinguish between sounds they sound like super low bit like fuzz.. Or sometimes you can hear the sound but its super low volume and when i record it and go to chop the sample I cant see the waveform?? I dont know if it's the wires or the ram because it sounds glitchy? Also I dont have any floppies but I dont think that matters because it records into ram right?

Sounds like you need to get a decent soundcard for your laptop. Those headphone jacks can pick up all sorts of nastiness when you hook them up to hardware.

Im not sure if that's it I tried sampling from a phone, macbook air and dell laptop.. I hope thats not it my Presonus interface broke right after I got the mpc the usb.port broke off the board looks like it could be soldered back on ?

What do your RCA-1/4" adapters look like?

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Im using the one with 2 lines.. Im going to try that thanks man.. Isn't 2 line stereo and 1 line mono? The guy I ordered it from said to try different cables he said they tested it and it sampled, recorded sequence, saved to disk and reloaded ti and it worked. how do I play the metronome, so i can make sure its not the MPC outs?

2 lines is unbalanced stereo, or balanced mono.

You are sending an unbalanced mono signal into each of the MPC inputs, with the 1/8" to 2 RCA Y-cable that you are using, not a stereo signal.

The inputs of the MPC are balanced mono, the RCA-TRS 1/4" adapters (with the 2 black lines/bands) are causing phase cancellation problems due to sending exactly the same signal to the +/hot and -/cold sides of the balanced mono inputs.

You need the other adapters, RCA-TS 1/4" (1 black line/band), or when inserting the ones you have into the MPC 1/4" inputs, only insert them half way, until you feel the first 'click'.

Thanks man I tried to put them in half but it didn't work im gonna order some mono adapters...

Thanks man I got it working it was a issue with a cable to I hooked up my laptop to a home receiver and ran a 1/4 TRS from the receiver 1/4 Jack into the left input and it worked... Its so much fun