Can't hear my recorded tracks

MikeA wrote on 4/14/2013, 10:38 PM

I'm transferring some very old cassette tapes to my external HDD attached to my laptop. I'm using Sony Vegas 10.0c 64 bit as the recording program. I'm coming out of my cassette deck into a Presonus Firestudio (Channels 1&2 are L&R respectively) and I have Tracks 1 & 2 set up and recording in Vegas just fine. While running the tape I can hear the audio and adjust levels with the Presonus. (Monitor out of the Presonus into an Adcom stereo preamp then to my amp and finally my speakers.) But when I go to play back from Sony Vegas, I don't hear anything even if I plug headphones directly into my laptop. I can choose the option under Tools called Preview in Player and Sound Forge opens up and I can hear what I recorded just fine. I just can't hear it through Vegas.

I'm an old analog guy and if I had a mixer and tape machine setup, I'd be done by now!! All this computer junk just ticks me off because I can't "see" the signal flow. It's all "In the box".

Thanks

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 4/16/2013, 7:49 AM

Make sure you've selected the right audio device in Vegas Preferences.
Also right click on the track header(s) and set the buss routing to mains.

Geoff_Wood wrote on 4/16/2013, 4:50 PM

.... Just like you used to need to plug the tape out into the right input in the old days !

geoff

rraud wrote on 4/17/2013, 10:17 AM

If it opens and plays back in SF, save it from there.. or just record it in SF to begin with.
Other than that, try different sound card settings like 'Wave classic' or 'Sound Mapper' since you won't be 'overdubbing'. (if I may use old school terminology)

ChristoC wrote on 4/17/2013, 5:30 PM

If the Presonus is selected as your audio card, you may need to change some setting/knob in the Presonus to enable direct DAW monitoring.....

MikeA wrote on 5/4/2013, 9:18 AM

Thanks guys, I decided to just do it in Sony Sound Forge and it worked perfectly.