Leslie speaker sounding recording

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I’m a long time user of Audacity but my PC failed and I’m now on a new PC. I downloaded Audacity 2.0.3 and the PC I have is Windows 7 / Beats Audio HP PC.

I tried to record audio from my sound card and the recording (not the audio I hear when I record it) sounds a bit like it’s playing through a leslie speaker - maybe a tin can. Found another thread with someone who described their recording sounding like a tin can and I think I checked everything he was instructed to do - though I think in that case he was using an internal microphone as a recording device.

I have two active recording devices - line in and stereo mix. At first I tried with both enabled and then tried to disable one of them at a time. When using line-in, I can’t recording anything. When I use stereo mix (Windows Direct Sound, Primary Sound Driver, Primary Sound Capture Driver, 2 (Stereo) Input Channel) with only stereo mix enabled, I get the same tinny/leslie sounding recording. I experimented and changed the settings on Audio Host and Input Device and no joy.

I experimented and kept changing different settings (including under Preferences: Quality > Sample Rate Converter) and nothing I did would stop that leslie sounding recording.

Thoughts?

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Make sure you have followed this to begin with
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#enhancements .

See also http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html .

Note that “Beats Audio” is well known to be problematic. You may need to ask HP if they will fund a USB sound card (some of these support stereo mix).


Gale

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Hi Gale -
I saw both of those links and walked through them. My recording devices properties doesn’t have an “enhancements” tab and I did walk through all the other settings in the other link. Anyone else with an HP PC with Beats Audio having a similar issue?

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Yes, we’ve had other postings with “Beats Audio” problems. Run away.
Koz

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You can look at the other users’ topics about Beats Audio here
http://forum.audacityteam.org/search.php?keywords=“Beats+Audio”

There is nothing we can do if nothing in those topics helps - contact HP.


Gale