Mar 11, 2006 02:01 pm Old drivers on a cheap sound card? What OS is she using? I have had Windows ME act liek that sometimes...weird pops and squelches...easiest way to fix it is to stop talking to your ex :-)
help with pops and stuff
Posted on Mar 11, 2006 01:38 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
my ex-gf is getting into recording. she's encountering 'popping' when she plays back tracks. but she says also that even when playing other music through winamp or whatever she uses--you know, actual mp3s by actual bands--that she gets the pops and clicks too.
first thing i thought was that the levels on the soundcard were wrong. second thing was buffer size.
right?
i told her to go into the soundcard setup and try turning down the output of the thing, and then cranking up the speaker volume (on the speakers themselves) to compensate for the loss. then i said that if that didnt work to find the buffer settings for the soundcard and try alternately increasing and decreasing the buffer size.
this is the kind of stuff i remember hearing somewhere on HRC about this sort of thing. but the winamp thing kind of threw me. i wasnt sure how to diagnose this problem.
what do you guys think is going on and how to fix it?
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Mar 11, 2006 02:01 pm Old drivers on a cheap sound card? What OS is she using? I have had Windows ME act liek that sometimes...weird pops and squelches...easiest way to fix it is to stop talking to your ex :-)
Mar 11, 2006 02:10 pm Quote:
easiest way to fix it is to stop talking to your ex :-)
i was trying to think of a joke and read down and deebs had beat me to it. dammit.
Mar 11, 2006 02:43 pm forty, it does sound as though the drivers are a bit muffed up. Indeed the higher buffer setting will eliminate most of the noise she is getting. If it an SB type card they do have trouble with lower buffer setting whil running full duplex, which is playback and record at the same time. But if it is happening using winamp and such it might really be related to the drivers themselves.
Mar 11, 2006 03:23 pm what soundcard is it?
if it has it's own hardware control UI then it "should" be buffers... but I suppose it could be other things... most are nasty... like a harddrive failure will slow throughput down enough to do this too... but the entire computer would run slow... because the harddrive will be increadably fragmented... about 5% of each HD is reserved to deal with this... have her run defrag and scandisk to rule it out.
Mar 11, 2006 06:31 pm Quote:
"easiest way to fix it is to stop talking to your ex :-)"
--hahaha.
i think they are using an external soundcard of some kind i'll try to find out. i will tell her to look for a UI and update the drivers and raise the buffer. if i learn anything more i may be back to this thread.
Mar 11, 2006 06:46 pm Also maybe try different driver types, if it has ASIO and WDM, try them both, perhaps it's just one of the types is faulty.
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