Garbled Sound On Recording

[Bill Colbert]

I am having a problem recording an acoustic guitar rhythm track, even when no other tracks have been recorded. When I play back the track I recorded, it has a warbly sound, kind of like when you drag your finger on a turntable from time to time. I get this same sound if I move my mouse rapidly while playing back audio wave files; the more I move the mouse, the more exaggerated the effect is. It is not popping or dropping out, just warbly. I get the same result using both n-Track version 2.1.4 and Cakewalk Music Creator. Could this caused by a too slow hard drive?

Here is my equipment:

Pentium 200 MMX
64 Meg 66 bus DIMM RAM
SAMSUNG WA32162A EIDE Drive, 4500 RPM, 11ms seek time, set to DMA transfer mode
Trident SVGA card set at 256 colors, 640 X 480
Old Panasonic C1395 Monitor

Thanks in advance, Bill

 

[Tom Hicks]

Something else is happening on your computer that is messing up your recording software.Call up the program manager with ctl>alt>delete and start shutting off unnecessary background programs that are running.One of them is probably causing your problem.
Tom

 

[Bill Colbert]

Garbled Sound

Thanks Tom. I did used program manager to end task on all programs except n-track and explorer and I still have the problem. I added a faster hard drive that can run in the DMA transfer mode, but I get this effect every time I move the mouse when I am playing back even one recorded track. Do you have any more ideas? Thanks, Bill

 

[deadboy]

What kind of sound card is it?

 

[Bill Colbert]

Turtle Beach Montego II

It is a Turtle Beach Montego II. Actually, the good news is I got a flash of intuition about the problem being in my video. My monitor is so old it only supports 256 colors at 640 X 480 and I am using an old Trident SVGA card. On a hunch I changed the display to 16 colors and the problem went away. The graphics are not very good but I don't really care about how it looks; the PC seems stable for recording for now, which is all I care about. Thanks for your help everyone.