Wavey Waves--What now???

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stratman49

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Well, I've sucessfully recorded my Strat
thru my POD onto my hard drive. Then, with
the help of home recording members,(thanks JSAYERS enabled
simultaneous recording/playback on my
Cakewalk Guitar Studio software in order to
record another track while listening to
previous recorded tracks.

I WAS IN HEAVEN

Now, all of a sudden, when I try to record a
track, the playback sounds garbled and flat,
like hearing a 45 played back at 33. I don't
know what happened.

My question-- What could cause this. It was fine
before. Other than enabling simultaneous recording/
playback, I haven"t done anything else. I've
defragged my drive, Have a Pentium3 450mhz with
256meg of RAM, disabled screen saver.

Could it be my connection? (using 1/4 inch plug
from POD (left output) to LINE IN to my soundblaster
using 1/4 TO 1/8 INCH adapter. I guess the adapters
come in Mono (one black ring around the tip or stereo
(two black rings)> I've got both but either still
gives me a wavey recorded wave.

The odd thing is it was fine before, now it seems I'm
recording in slow motion. What the Hell have I done?
ANY IDEAS

Thanks
 
What kind of hard drive are you using? is it a 7200 RPM drive? It seems like something in your system is not up to par, you may just need to do some trouble shooting.

-jhe
 
Any chance the sample rate has changed somehow? If you go to control panel, sounds - set your sounds to 'no sounds'. Windows sounds (which are recorded at 11KHz or 22KHz I think), chime's etc might be messing with the sample rate your card is set at. Within your recording software itself you could verify this.
 
Thanks, Emeric, I'll check that.

James brought up an interesting point.
Would the speed of your Hard Drive
(5400 vs 7200) effect the quality
of a recording?
 
Stratman - how's the quality of playback when you're not recording? Some low end sound cards, although advertised as full duplex, don't perform the task too well. Typical result is crappy playback when simultaneously recording.

If you can playback without problems when not trying to record at the same time, I would suspect your sound card. Think about investing in a better one.
 
Quality of playback is fine, or should I say, was
fine until this recent problems. I'm using
the full version Soundblaster Live Card,
certainly not the bottom of the barrel.

The frustrating thing is whether I check
simultaneous playback/record in the options box
(as suggested)or not, the recording still sounds like its
in slow motion.

Could the strength of the signal be somehow impaired
from my POD to Line in?

What would be the steps I take to troubleshoot
this.

THANKS FOR HELP ON THIS. It's a tough one......

[Edited by stratman49 on 01-09-2001 at 11:24]
 
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