DIRECT RECORDING ISSSUES!..HELP

I purchased this new OS for the mp1k moslty for the direct recording. Does anyone know if you can auditon the sound and sequence at the same time without recording. Iv read the manuel and theres nothing about auditioning before you record. I know holding the REC button i can hear what the input record source but cannot hear the sequence and the record source at the same time. If im doing something wrong or missing something...please let me know.thanks

once you turn INPUT THRU to ON you should hear what you're going to record...and you can play the sequence and practice the jam... hit stop.
OverDub and PlayStart and u should be able to play right in ..and hear it coming out WHATEVER output u assigned it too.. i always keep mine on ST. to start..
hope that helps.

whats up

i didnt really want to start a new thread on this. not sure if i should have, but oh well.

i just hooked up my turntable to the mpc 1k. it is just an old technique home stereo turn. the needle is a shure n25c, im running it through a bbe phono preamp.

heres my question. when the mpc is sitting idle, the needle is up on the turn, i am getting some movement on the monitor. is this normal? is it because of my shitty lines? should i invest in some digital lines? or just cop some better instrument lines? what kind of cable is the digital? they look like rca's, i hooked them up but didnt get any results.

thanks in advance

czy-y-y-y

Your turntable might need to be grounded. Most decent DJ mixers allow you to attach a ground cable to the back of the mixer.

whats up ac. thanks for the reply.

yeah im looking at my situation and i dont think its going to cut it. i have the turn table grounded, but this is an older home use stereo. im thinking maybe the ground is messed up and creating some low noise, or my lines running out of the phono amp are noisy. i dont have any real dj equipment. so it looks like i may be saving up for something else...

which one would be more likely though? i dont imagine it would be the turntable, unless its a bad ground wire, which i dont even know if that is a real concern, but should i toss the phono preamp and get a mixer? or just pick up some new lines? or try and save for the turn table. i guess start cheap, and probably go with lines.

do you think gold tips would clean the sound up?

thanks again for the reply!

Forget about that old turntable. Get the best quality when sampling form your vinyl.

I think the Numark portable turntables have a built in amp. So you can just connect it straight to your MPC



OR if you got the dough! Best of both worlds and you can skratch with cds as if they were vinly.

all right. good looking out ac. im going to start saving some dough for a new turntable.

you know, only buy a new turntable if you really feel you need it

i still get moniter movement w/ no needle movement. i think that's fairly invariable. logically, if a truck passes by outside, your needle would rattle a tiny bit giving you motion on the moniter.

hell my sampling quality probably sucks on a technical level, but i'm very happy w/ it cuz i like things noisy. the only problem is if it gets to a point where you actively cannot sample certain parts of certain records because the noise is so high and the level of the actual recording you're trying to get is too high.

i got my sampling turntable from a pawn shop and my mixer from goodwill.

Antonym wrote:you know, only buy a new turntable if you really feel you need it

i still get moniter movement w/ no needle movement. i think that's fairly invariable.

ok, thats what i was looking for. i talked to another guy on another forum who said that he gets no low end noise or movement on the monitor. hes using a vextix mixer and a pro turn as well. i was just trying to get some comparison.

next question, would recording with the digital ins clean up the sound at all? and would it affect the sound quality? i love the nastiness of vinyl. but i want to capture it the best way possible. and i know sh&* about recording from vinyl.

If you get noise from vibrations then you either don't have your turntable on a stable enough surface, or you need a better turntable. I used to have this problem a lot but I got a nice heavey solid turntable and I don't get that noise anymore.

Also make sure you are grounded and are using good cables. You won't be able to use digital cables (the ones that look like RCA are called SPDIF digital coax). To be able to use these you will need a digital output which some nice turntables have.

hmmm, i wonder if its because of the surface i have it on. i have it on a small end table. the feet dont even touch the table, its resting on the body of the turn table. now that i think about it, i bet the feet are shock absorbers arent they?
btw: thanks for the comments everybody