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cubdukat
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I recently picked up a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer to use with my home recording setup. This is being fed into a Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Gamer card, and I'm running Vista Home Premium. And yes, I know this is not anywhere near a proper home recording setup, but you gotta make do with what you have, right? And it actually works fairly well, except for...
I have been using this setup with Reaper, and I have been running into a problem. I am getting distorted sound, even though the meters on the Xenyx aren't even getting into the yellow, and the VU meters on Reaper aren't in the yellow either. I am looking at two specific sources of the problem:
1. The Yamaha TG300 that I'm using. I had always read that when recording synthesizers, you should turn the volume all the way up in order to overcome the noise. Is it possible the audio circuitry would be causing the distortion?
2. The Audigy2 itself. I have nothing but problems with this card under Vista. It also performs double duty as my HTPC sound card, and the last batch of drivers took away my 5.1 sound, and it looks like the latest ones yanked away my 24/96 ASIO drivers.
I have also checked to make sure everything is going into the mixer the right way (the TG300's plugged into the stereo inputs) and into the Audigy2 right (it's plugged into the line input). I've turned down the TG, and the distortion seems to have gone away for the most part, but I have to turn up the gain elsewhere to compensate, thus increasing the noise and hiss.
It's getting to the point where I'm convinced that I'm going to have to jettison the Audigy just to get a usable system.
I have been using this setup with Reaper, and I have been running into a problem. I am getting distorted sound, even though the meters on the Xenyx aren't even getting into the yellow, and the VU meters on Reaper aren't in the yellow either. I am looking at two specific sources of the problem:
1. The Yamaha TG300 that I'm using. I had always read that when recording synthesizers, you should turn the volume all the way up in order to overcome the noise. Is it possible the audio circuitry would be causing the distortion?
2. The Audigy2 itself. I have nothing but problems with this card under Vista. It also performs double duty as my HTPC sound card, and the last batch of drivers took away my 5.1 sound, and it looks like the latest ones yanked away my 24/96 ASIO drivers.
I have also checked to make sure everything is going into the mixer the right way (the TG300's plugged into the stereo inputs) and into the Audigy2 right (it's plugged into the line input). I've turned down the TG, and the distortion seems to have gone away for the most part, but I have to turn up the gain elsewhere to compensate, thus increasing the noise and hiss.
It's getting to the point where I'm convinced that I'm going to have to jettison the Audigy just to get a usable system.
