Dear Dragon, Adjust for DC offset?

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I was reading your comparison of the high end card vs. the Yamaha 724 and I was curious what it means to adjust the DC offset. I have the 724 card and would like to upgrade sometime in the future but in the mean time would like to try and get the best sound out of it that I can.
 
Sorry, I must have missed that first one altogether. Anyway, DC offset usually shows up from bad grounding in cheap sound cards, but most audio editors take care of it with one click, so it's just a matter of remembering to do it.
 
I haven't quite figured out how to adjust for it yet. Could someone give me some tips on doing this in either Cakewalk or Goldwave.
 
Hey I thought DC offset occured when you used battery powered condensers??? I use a WAVE 8*24 and it offsets all over the place... does this mean it is a crappy soundcard? Could it have to do with the fact that I use ungrounded outlets to power all of my equipment??? I want answers!!!
I dont know about cakewalk but in Cool Edit Pro you have to normalize the wav. and there is a box you check to adjust for DC offset... You then enter the value of 0%.

S8-N
 
Nevermind I figured out how to do it in Goldwave. You just push the button that that says offset. Sometimes it pays to do a little more research before you ask a question :-)
 
S8-N, you hit it on the head. I was giving the short answer, which is that it usually comes from bad grounding in cheap sound cards, but it always comes from bad grounding, I believe. So (apart from the fact that you're taking your life in your hands by working with ungrounded equipment in general), I'd say your two-prong outlets are the problem here, not your mic.
 
My house was built in 1947 and was kept pretty much as built... The wiring is pretty scary... How exactly would a person go about grounding an ungrounded outlet?
 
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