Audacity Forum

Cleaning up my computer seems to have stopped the stutter but nothing i do will stop the sound drop off. i work in IT and have contacted Dell and it would appear even their own engineers know of the problem but have no fix for it.

the mic is a shure pg58 connected via a Maplin preamp direct into the mini jack Line in on my laptop. the soundcard is a Sigmatel high def card. i tried updating the drivers and they are the most up to date i can get. something new that has just started happeninig is, the recording is working fine t...

i am usinig a dynamic mic through a pre amp in to the Line in on my laptop and i have tunred anti virus off. if i record silence i will get general background noise for around 2 - 10 seconds then the background noise dissappears completely. 2 things happen when i am recording voice. 1. if i begin ta...

Many Thanks, i had suspected that the laptop was causing the problem. i will get a small mixer or preamp and try the line in.

cheers

i'm running a Shure PG58 mic with mini jack straight into a Dell latitiude laptop. the laptop has a sigmtel audio card.

i am in the middle of recording some narration for a powerpoint presentation and i have a strange noise problem. when i commence recording i get around 1 - 3 seconds of aubible noise then silence and when the person speaks it is very noisy and distorted. if the person speaks during the noise (within...