Auxillary input Line In noise

[Tomb]

Re: Auxillary input Line In noise

There are some new (or newish drivers - I noticed that windows update had installed them for me) drivers for the Realtek AC 97 out at the moment. Maybe installing them may help.

http://www.e4allinc.info/dir3/phfilesz/drivers/audio/wdm_a369.exe

[neilthecellist]

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Speaking of audio drivers, is it possible to install a sound driver for a sound card it wasn't designed for? For example: I have Dell motherboard integrated SoundMax Digital Audio . My computer came with the drivers for the card on CD, but it's so old....(like 2001 -ish old) . Could I install like the AC 97 driver for my sound card?

[iTunesIsEvil]

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My computer came with the drivers for the card on CD, but it's so old....(like 2001 -ish old) . Could I install like the AC 97 driver for my sound card?

Neil, I'd check the Dell website in the support area to see what the newest driver there is for your machine. That'd be your best bet. I personally wouldn't go trying to install drivers for something they weren't built for.

Try here first...

[goodgoat]

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The VU meter is in the red, almost at the far right end of the bar. Hadnt tried the drivers yet.

[goodgoat]

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On the volume mixer for playback when I turn the wave volume up the noise comes. You can still hear the audio in the background with the wave turned low, turning it up drowns out the input. Turned all the way down it just records silence. The VU meter is still redlining hard. The audio is not in the recorded file with the wave turned low.

[neilthecellist]

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Neil, I'd check the Dell website in the support area to see what the newest driver there is for your machine. That'd be your best bet. I personally wouldn't go trying to install drivers for something they weren't built for.

Try here first...

ew!!!! It redirected me to my least favorite website!!! Microsoft? I'm so emotionally hurt now, iTunesIsEvil!!

[ChristinaS]

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On the volume mixer for playback when I turn the wave volume up the noise comes. You can still hear the audio in the background with the wave turned low, turning it up drowns out the input. Turned all the way down it just records silence. The VU meter is still redlining hard. The audio is not in the recorded file with the wave turned low.

OK, you can do this by using the Stereo mix rather than the line-in setting for recording. In that case it record what you hear. You said before that when you play your tape player through your soundcards' line-in you hear it on the computer's speakers OK. SO using the Stereo Mix as inoput fro recording should work. Keep the volume slider 2/3 or 3/4 of the way up. As long as the VU meter is showing activity it's going through. Make sure you hit the record button though to start and at the end to stop it.

At this point we are not so much concerned with the quality of what is being recorded, just with the recording process. For quality, you have the other considerations mentioned by Petriburg. Headphone out to line-in isn't the happiest combo generally, unless the headphone out doubles as a line-out of its own accord.

[iTunesIsEvil]

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ew!!!! It redirected me to my least favorite website!!! Microsoft? I'm so emotionally hurt now, iTunesIsEvil!!

Ack! Hehheh... Sorry about that! I wouldn't have wished a redirect like that upon my worst enemy!

I'm still angered that you can't access the Windows Update site with FireFox :(

[neilthecellist]

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yeah i hate it too. Firefox......

I need to update my Firefox version too....version 1.0.2 came out or something like that.

[adaywayne]

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The VU meter is in the red, almost at the far right end of the bar. Hadnt tried the drivers yet.

Then you are recording at far too high a level and severly overloading your soundcard to the point of possibly damaging it. The horrible noise you hear when you playback what was recorded is probably the sound of severe digital clipping. Turn down the recording volume until the meter is in the green area most of the time with occasional spikes into the yellow.