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I am looking for any tips to make better recordings to submit to the Singer's Forum.  I personally have trouble adjusting microphone input to mix properly with the karaoke backing track.

Here is how I am doing it now:  I have my CDGs ripped to MP3+g files.  I use either CAVS or WinAmp with the CDG plugin to play the song and graphics.  My sound card is a SoundBlaster Live 24 bit with the ability to record "What you hear".  While the song is playing, I sing and it is being mixed while recording with Creative EAX console with NO EFFECTS selected.  I save the file to MP3 format MPEG-1.0 layer 3, 44,100 kHz, joint stereo, 128 Kbps.  I am using the Windows volume control to balance the sound between the CDG sound track and the Mic input.  If I want a little bit of effects after the recording, I will play the recorded track and record again, this time with the effects on.

System:  Dell Dimension Computer P4, 3.0 Ghz, 1 Gb Ram, 320 Mb disk, Windows XP Professional, Sound Blaster Live 24 Bit.  Microphone system:  Winbel wireless VHF, WM-728, 600 ohm, Freq Response 40 Hz to 15 kHz.

Any suggestions to improve quality and mix would be appreciated.

If need be, I have a USB Sound Blaster card to use as a second sound card????

Follow these links on related topics:
http://www.karaoke-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2911

http://www.karaoke-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=3997

I was looking for that old thread where we had done the "tips for recording on cool edit pro 2"... but can't find it anymore.

You are using Creative Recorder that comes with your sound card to record. Thats all right if you want to record 'what u hear'. If thats the case you may be able to improve your recording by;
1, rip your cdg to wav rather than mp3 because you will be recording an mp3 file that will be recorded to wav again,
2 you may want to add efx during recording itself; but dont over do it .

If you want to record you vox in a seperate track then you need a muliti tracker program which Creative Recorder isn't.This way you can add efx to your vox without afecting the music track .You need to download either Audacity (free) here http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ or you can get KRISTAL (also free) here
http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/.
Both are easy to use

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Is this the one?
http://www.karaoke-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1767

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