hi I’m downloading a wave from a zoom devise to my pc and than to Audacity, when I am playing it I am getting a sound of ‘wrong sample/bit rate’ or a ‘clipping’…
The file is defiantly sounds good on zoom and on my PC
also - if I export it anyway after editing it, to a new audio file it sounds good.
what should I do Please
Thanks!
Zoom does seem to use some unusual formatting… Other people have reported problems. It MIGHT use an “advanced” WAV format that doesn’t work with Audacity.
It’s VERY strange for it to improve after exporting!
…I’m not sure what you’re describing -
The wrong sample rate would play at the wrong speed and pitch, like playing a vinyl record at the wrong speed.
Clipping is regular-old “overload distortion” like when you turn up the volume and try to get 20 Watts out of a 10W amplifier.
If the bit depth, offset, or byte-order is wrong, that can foul-up the sound… The data is read in 8-bit bytes and if the sequence is “wrong” the 16-bit or 24-bit audio samples can be re-assembled incorrectly.
Which one? This is my Zoom H1n which I rather like.
When I power it up, it tells me in a little window lower-left that it’s planning on using 44.1K at 16 bit. What does yours say?
Koz
I’m going over your posting. It would be normal for us to invite you to post up to ten seconds of normal sound with distortion on the forum. The upload icon is the heavy sideways bar with up arrow.
But you can’t do that right? Any export cleans up the distortions.
So your machine is doing something to the sound. I would guess some other application on your machine is messing with the quality.
I would do a clean shutdown, start, start Audacity and see if the problem is still there.
Regular Shut-Down or Restart aren’t thorough enough. You need the special one. It will almost without question take longer.
Also, make sure Windows Enhancements are turned off.
Koz
Koz
I know you were hoping for a “Push This Button” solution and the problem would go away. You have a collection of symptoms that don’t lend themselves to a one-pass solution like that.
Plus having a little too much information missing. We have to be able to build your system in our heads (from multiple time zones away).
Koz
I’ve got the H5 and it tells me the same about my sample rate and my bitrate - 44,1 / 16
Have you gone through the rest of that? Do a clean shutdown to make sure there are no applications hanging around trying to “help you.”
And then making sure Windows “Enhancements” are all turned off?
Koz