US-122 Track playback is scratchy; pop-ie...

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I have a 1.7 Ghz, 512Mb Ram XP Pro.

Cubase3 is the only program installed on it.

Audio plays fine on the system. (122 is my sound card).

When I record a track (Audio, Mono, My guitar via 1/4" cord) it sounds clean when I'm laying it down, but playback has scratches... like the input signal is peaking.

I have tried all settings I can think of. The input signal does not peak on the 122, or in any of the meters.

I have even used the MS soundrecorder to test it, same results. Clean in, dirty payback.

My resources are not taxed at all, the CPU use is way down, plenty of sys memory wide open.

Is it my USB port?

Can I hook the 122 to a firewire input?

Is there a better, comparable right and left input unit audio interface?

This unit worked fine when this machine had 2k pro, but I've since reformatted, reinstalled win2k, then all the audio playback and recording was scratchy

So i wiped the computer and installed xp, clean audio, but scratchy recording...

Any ideas? thanks!
 
Try following the instructions here ---

http://www.musicxp.net/

It's a list of tweaks that you can do to get better audio performance from your XP system.

You don't specifically say so, but you are using ASIO drivers, right?


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thanks for the info! i'll check it out... i just ordered an aditional Gb of ram, hopefully that plus the tweaks will work... if not, anyone wanna buy a us-122?

asio, i'm not certain, but i believe there were options for that, and i selected the 122's inputs for that? i'll have to check, its not on this computer, but the one i have set up in the practice room... which is not connected to the internet
 
planetfall said:
... if not, anyone wanna buy a us-122?
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Oh, please.

I've had my US-122 for years and there's nothing wrong with them.

You must be rich to be willing to sell something just because you don't understand how to use it.


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ssscientist said:
Oh, please.

I've had my US-122 for years and there's nothing wrong with them.

You must be rich to be willing to sell something just because you don't understand how to use it.


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oh, i know how to use it just fine, it worked great for about a year without having to tweak my system one bit, go to my indaba page, the first song on my profile was recorded using my 122 (got about 18 tracks going on that one), and i have 4 unfinished projects recorded with it that sound sweet, no POP or ScRaTcH...

its easy to be smug when your equipment is working properly, innit?
 
planetfall said:
its easy to be smug when your equipment is working properly, innit?
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That's why you came here in the first place --- because your equipment wasn't working properly and you wanted some advice.

When you post about punting a piece of gear that I've worked to death with no trouble at all for the 2+ years that I've owned it, you've got to expect a negative reaction.

That means that you'd rather give up than take my advice, and to me that means the metaphorical middle finger.


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I have a US122 going into a win2000 laptop. It's not my main recording system but is very reliable for tracking. It's quirky about needing different drivers and buffer sizes with different apps though. Have you tried all the different drivers?
 
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