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The Better Way:
Here is the best way to record cues:
| 1. | Connect your music source to the computer's line input. This will usually mean using a cable with a 1/8" phono plug on one end (the computer end) and an RCA plug on the other. The RCA plug connects to your Music-Out jack on your round dance turntable when you are recording music, and to the Voice-out jack when you are recording cues. |
| 3. | Save the file. (i.e. Paper Moon.MP3) |
| 4. | (Optional) It is helpful to plug a pair of earphones into your computer's output jack at this point, so you can listen to the music, but it won't be picked up by the microphone. |
| 5. | Open a new, empty file in your sound editor. Start recording. |
| 6. | Play the music file you just recorded using Media Player, Winamp, Music Match etc. (You should be able to play it by just double-clicking the filename in Windows Explorer.) Or, if your computer's sound card supports it, you can probably use your sound editor to play the music file as you record your voice file. |
| 7. | With the music playing and the sound editor recording, speak the cues into the microphone. You will probably have to adjust the recording volume - if so, after you have it set correctly, discard this voice track and start over |
| 8. | Edit this new voice file as necessary to trim the silence from the beginning, adjust the volume, remove that sneeze, etc. |
| 9. | Save the new file (Paper Moon II Cues.MP3) in the DanceMaster Voice Files folder. |
That's it for recording.
If you have the full cue sheet (step cues) available in any of the common formats, such as Word (.DOC), HTML, .PDF, etc. you should put it into the DanceMaster\Full Cues folder, so DM can display it for you when you need it in a hurry.
Now you're ready to connect all the pieces together in DanceMaster.
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