Have a new DAW set up , I swear I am getting some distortion and I cannot figure out why , New Dell XPS 8910, Creative soundblaster sound card, New Yamaha HS8 monitors, Reaper and Sony Vegas with Waves plugins, I cannot find anything I'm overdriving and I disabled the sound card and went with the onboard audio no change,Ive even played store bought CD's bypassing the DAW software and they just don't sound quite right. Like high frequency distortion. Almost like when tweeters start to fry but these are brand new and I have not cranked on them. Driving me crazy cannot figure it out. Suggestions. It is like something in the computer is set wrong and overdriving the monitors. I've tried different settings in the preferances looked at the device manager, only have one audio enabled at a time Help!!! Also just listened with headphones same problem, burned a cd of a mix I thought was okay. Sounded like Crap on my old system I'm using a project that I already did and made sound great on my old Pentium 4 with XP 32 bit. I've checked the media files they are the same and I got them from the old project. Could I have a bad computer with a bad motherboard. I don't know what else to think. I am going to hook my new monitors up to my old system and see how they sound.
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