Please oh please help me

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Well I came home today to discover that when I try to record all I get is a highpitched squeal after I normalize my track...I tried it in Acid and Cubase SX and got the same results for both...

Now my soundcard is an audiophile 24/96 and I unplugged everything and recorded and I still get this hiss...WTF...And I mean high pitched...It came at me totally out of the blue cause the shit was working perfect 2 days ago when I last recorded...

Geoff
 
check you cables (where there pluged into) some times if you plug the cables into the wrong inputs, you will get dightal feedback. if it's doing the samething in the other software, then it's prom. on the outside.
 
Well. when I powered up my PC today and turned the speakers on, heared a damned high pitched squeal, I opened the Monitor Mixer and saw that it was on all input meters, I screamed out loud, WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! checked the break out box and saw that the power cord was not completely inserted in the jack, I pushed it in and voila!!!! the squeal was gone...........looks as if the inputs dont like to be connected without power.....
 
Jake dammit...lol


I have recorded with nothing plugged in at all into the back of the comp. The sound is still there...

Music still plays... this highpitched hiss is only present during recording...And I noticed it only comes out when I normalize...But I have to normalize to get the sound boosted up enuff so that really really sucks...Thanks for the responses..

Geoff
 
Have you tried to normalize another track to see what happens? IS it just with one particular track that it happens? If it happens to all tracks, maybe there is some preference or option that you accidentaly changed or need to change. Could you normalize normally before? Since when do you get the problems? Did you install or change anything from your software or hardware?
 
This is the SAME damn thing that happened to me. First on the left then both sides. Pretty quiet but enough to screw things up.
 
Well....It just appeared from nowhere...I haven't installed anything new or changed any settings...I hadn't even turned the comp on till yesterday...It is present on everything I try to record and normalize since yesterday...
 
Why don´t you try the following:

Uninstall the card, then install drivers again and test.
Uninstall music software and reinstall again, test.

If this fails, maybe just give it a shot and move the Soundcard to another PCI slot, that is a bit far off, but who knows.......
 
Altruist said:
Music still plays... this highpitched hiss is only present during recording...And I noticed it only comes out when I normalize...But I have to normalize to get the sound boosted up enuff so that really really sucks...Thanks for the responses..
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Are you by any chance plugging a mic directly into the sound card?
 
Nah see thats the thing...I started recording and then I was like maybe the mics fucking it up...So I unplugged the mic..still there...Then I unplugged everything and it was still there...I think I will just uninstall everything and try again like alonso suggested...Thanks

Geoff
 
Altruist said:
Nah see thats the thing...I started recording and then I was like maybe the mics fucking it up...So I unplugged the mic..still there...Then I unplugged everything and it was still there...I think I will just uninstall everything and try again like alonso suggested...Thanks

Geoff
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Please listen carefully because this is very important.

Are you using a MIC PREAMP or plugging a mic directly into the soundcard? If you are not using a preamp then that is probably the reason it sounds like shit.
 
Then why do you need to normalize? Just turn up the preamp when you are tracking. Unless you figure out where the sound is coming from we can't really help. The fact that the noise was only noticeable after normalizing leads me to believe your recording levels are way too low and that could be the entire problem.
 
Yup that seemed to be it...I up'ed the volume on the pre, moved the soundcard from one PCI slot to the other and cleaned my wires making sure they weren't touching yadda yadda...Its seems to work fine...Thanks alot for the ideas...

Geoff
 
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