big ole stoopid recording noise problem

[jwgeetar]

hey all, well i was gonna put this in the n-track forum but i'm getting the same noise everywhere.

when i record my cassette into my computer to save my 2 track demos or any cassette, i get scratching and skipping.(latency?) this is when i use ntrack,goldwave editor, or the windows recorder.

my cassette's sound fine while recording them, got a good connection and a good un-distorted signal. it's on playback from the computer is when it happens. must be an adjustment somewhere other than recording levels, but where?

any suggestions? thanx jw

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[musicsdarkangel]

Ahh yes, I use Cubase, and whenever I record to it, I get this ugly high hiss on EVERY track that screws it up, and I just turn the extremely high EQ down. It eleminates it beautifully, maybe it'll work for you (i don't know if its high or low, but fool around with eq, and maybe even noise reduction).

Good luck.

 

[jwgeetar]

no angel it's not a high eq prob.it's a scratching that's in and out every 1 to 3 seconds.

and i just tried recording my guitar into a mic at my desk and the same thing. ironically, when i talked into the mic i did not get it.

it will do it one time and then not.hmmmm --onward thru the fog.

ps:i would luv to have cubase(tried the demo) but this prob might exist there to

 

[musicsdarkangel]

hmm you sure its not the chord?? that screws it up for me sometimes....

if you'd like cubase (or other software)


get in touch with me musicsdarkangel@yahoo.com i'll help ya out =) heh.

 

[JimH]

Make sure you don't have any background stuff running like virus protection or task schedulers.

I'm not familiar with nTrack so I don't know how latency is controlled. But I'd think you're probably using the Window multimedia drivers and can't change the latency anyway. If that's the case then this shouldn't be a problem because latency is already long. (If latency is set to be to short you get skips, clicks, and pops.)

Just a thought...if you are getting the same scratching sound on playback no matter what software you use, how do you know that you're not recording the scratching on input? Do you have a way to play the recorded computer files to confirm they are clean?