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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Recording with the Archos recorderRe: Recording with the Archos recorder
From: Cathy De Viney <ccdeviney_at_cox.net>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:35:23 -0500 If the mic has a battery, have you tried changing it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5_at_comcast.net> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net>; "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 7:17 PM Subject: Re: Recording with the Archos recorder > Hi Glenn > I have pressed the play button in all my experiments. > I haven't tried hooking up the recorder to a line-in source but that's not > a bad idea. What confuses me is that this is a regular mic that plugs in > directly to the recorder, but it still doesn't seem to work. the only mic > I can use is the internal one and given the amount of money I spent I > really would rather use the one I got with it. so I'm really no further > along than where I was before, but thanks for the suggestions. > > > > > At 06:51 PM 5/20/2005, you wrote: >>Sounds like possibly you are leaving out the last step of pushing the play >>button, to start the recording. >>But didn't you say you have successfully done this with the internal mic? >>Try adjusting the recording quality, and maybe something in there will >>make >>a difference. >>Also, have you ever tried recording from a real line-in source? i.e., >>like >>plugging in the RCA to 1 eighth inch plug, into a stereo and see if it >>works? >>If it does, then there is something with the mic, like a low battery or >>something. >>Glenn >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5_at_comcast.net> >>To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> >>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:31 PM >>Subject: Recording with the Archos recorder >> >> >>Hi folks >>Yep, the subject line appears to be a bit stupid, but just hang with me >>here. I can't seem to get it to record anything. To give you an idea, >>I'll >>run down the steps I took so you'll know where I am in the process. >>1. I go to the recording settings menu in Rockbox and choose my source. I >>have an external mic,it's actually the one made by Archos so it should >>definitely work with it. It works on other things so the mic definitely >>works properly. >> so I'm guessing the correct choice here would be line-in. >> So, I choose that. >>2. In the directory section I have it set to current directory. In my >>case >>this is called recordings. so now the unit *should* know where to place >>any >>recordings I make. >>3. I plug in the mic to the line-in jack and start recording. When I'm >>done, I press the stop/off button which takes me back to the recording >>screen in rockbox. >> >>However, I also have headphones plugged in but can not hear myself through >>the headphones while the recording is happening. When I chose the >>internal mic as my source I can definitely hear myself, but with nothing >>else. >>Also, when I hook the unit to the computer to transfer my file i made to >>it, the recordings folder is empty, and there don't seem to be any traces >>of an actual recording even happening. So, what am I doing wrong? I know >>it's got to be one very simple step and I'll probably feel like a total >>idiot when I learn what it is, lol. But I've tried everything I know, and >>the only mic that seems to work in any tests I've done is the internal >>one. >>and as I said before the mic itself works and I can hear myself just fine >>through the headphones, but no recordings seem to be saving themselves to >>the hard drive. So I'm hoping one of you folks can help set me in the >>right direction. >> >>Thanks. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox >> >>_______________________________________________ >>http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-05-21 Page was last modified "Mon Nov 16 10:57:21 2020" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |