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C_Yarwood
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Anybody ever heard of this problem before? If so, and you have a solution, I'm all ears. I've heard of it before, but never seen a solution - other than getting a new sound card. The problem is: All audio that comes in through the line in jack is subject to an unacceptable compressor/limiter/gate thing. It sucks pretty bad. Example: with electric guitar plugged directly to line in, hit a single note and let it ring - that should produce a track that has a sharp attack and sustains quite a while (depending on the quality of your guitar). But with this lame sound card (I suspect that's the culprit), the note starts out oddly gated, the attack is soft and swells up to actual volume. Then, instead of slowly decaying as in reality, it drops off sharply after about 10 seconds. The resulting wave shape should be an elongated triangle, full height on the left and evenly tapering down to zero. Instead that shape is more like a diamond, small at the very beginning, tall after about 1 second, then sorta chopped off prematurely. And it doesn't matter what software I use to record it. I get the same thing with Acid, Sound Forge, and with the Windows Sound Recorder. So, this seems to indicate the sound card is at fault. And I cannot find any place to turn off that function - neither in the sound card control panel, nor in Windows control panel. Operating system is Windows XP Pro. Considering a new sound card, but thought I ought to do a little research first. Thoughts anybody?
Thanks,
C Yarwood
Thanks,
C Yarwood