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"hot" high signal, digital recordings need to absolutely avoid high levels, since

any overload (clipping) of the signal will result in a ruined recording.

When you press the "Test Recording VU Meter" button, this launches the

Windows mixer. The recording settings are on the recording panel of this Mixer.

Note: BB opens the Windows Mixer with the window titled "Recording

Control". On some older systems (Win 95) ,it may open with the Window titled

"Volume Control"- this is the playback window, and you'll need to select the

Recording Control manually by choosing Options-Properties - Recording.

If you don't see any movement on the VU meters , then its possible that your

soundcard shows its VU meters on the Playback panel - the SoundBlaster Live

does this. In this case, you should set the option "Recording VU Meter" to "is on

the Playback Panel"

Next, you should set the start point for the recording. You can record from the

Start of the song, or somewhere in the middle, by choosing a bar and chorus # to

start the record.

In most cases you will only be recording audio, so you should set this to "No

MIDI recording". But if you want to record MIDI at the same time (in a situation

where you were playing a MIDI piano at the same time as you are singing for

example), then you could set this setting to "Also Record MIDI to Melody

(assuming that you wanted the MIDI to get recorded to the Melody track - use

the Soloist setting if you want it recorded to the Soloist track).

If you have previously recorded audio on

the track, and want to overdub (to add a harmony for example), then you should

select the Overdub underlying Audio. It is not essential to select it at this point,

since you'll get another chance at the end of the recording. Note that the audio

track will not play during record, so you'd have to sing the harmony without

hearing the original audio part.

When you press RECORD, the audio recording begins.