I'm new here and new to pc recording, but I'm an old guy in need of some help and I'm glad I found this site.
I'm getting noise behind anything I record, sounds like static or cracking. My pc is 700 mhz, 128 K, Sound Blaster Live, output through home stereo, recording with Cool Edit Pro or Guitar Tracks from Cakewalk. I am trying to record guitar with a mic through a small mixer or straight to the sound card from a j-station amp emulator. Either way makes noise.
After noticing this noise, I immedietly replaced the sound card, because I had a previous problem with a Sound Blaster Live card and it was still under warranty. This did not solve the problem so I started to unplug any hardware I thought may be making noise; CD ROM, CDRW, even the cpu fan. No luck. Then I changed out the surge protector, pluged the computer into a different wall outlet, ran the sound through pc speackers instead of my home system, and finally, today I changed my power supply. STILL NO LUCK!
Each time I made a change I ran the diagnostic program that comes with the Sound Blaster. This records a few seconds of sound and then you can play it back, each time I still had the noise behind the recording. I have also been carefull with recording levels so it is not clipping I am hearing, it sounds like RF interference
I am totally stumped and really want to go ahead with recording and quit messing with all this hardware. Anyone have any ideas?
I'm getting noise behind anything I record, sounds like static or cracking. My pc is 700 mhz, 128 K, Sound Blaster Live, output through home stereo, recording with Cool Edit Pro or Guitar Tracks from Cakewalk. I am trying to record guitar with a mic through a small mixer or straight to the sound card from a j-station amp emulator. Either way makes noise.
After noticing this noise, I immedietly replaced the sound card, because I had a previous problem with a Sound Blaster Live card and it was still under warranty. This did not solve the problem so I started to unplug any hardware I thought may be making noise; CD ROM, CDRW, even the cpu fan. No luck. Then I changed out the surge protector, pluged the computer into a different wall outlet, ran the sound through pc speackers instead of my home system, and finally, today I changed my power supply. STILL NO LUCK!
Each time I made a change I ran the diagnostic program that comes with the Sound Blaster. This records a few seconds of sound and then you can play it back, each time I still had the noise behind the recording. I have also been carefull with recording levels so it is not clipping I am hearing, it sounds like RF interference
I am totally stumped and really want to go ahead with recording and quit messing with all this hardware. Anyone have any ideas?