Poor quality recording

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Poor quality recording

Post by rickash » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:14 am

Hi, I am trying to get a good recording on 1.3.11 version. It crackles, clicks & faulters no matter what I do. I have a XP with the Realtech sound s/w.

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Re: Poor quality recording

Post by Irish » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:24 am

What are you trying to record from? Microphone? Turntable? Sounds playing on your computer?
What equipment are you using and how is it connected? More detail is always better.

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Re: Poor quality recording

Post by rickash » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:31 am

Yes right. So I am plugging my guitar into my Line6 amp, then from the record out into the Mic jack of my computer.

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Re: Poor quality recording

Post by Irish » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:56 am

The Mic jack is designed to take a tiny mono signal from a microphone, and you are feeding it a signal 1000 times bigger from the amp.

If you have a desktop machine, there should be a line-in jack which will take the signal from the amp. However, if you are on a laptop which doesn't have a line-in jack, the only option is an external sound card.

See this thread for reviews of sound cards which are known to work well with Audacity.
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

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Re: Poor quality recording

Post by whomper » Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:19 pm

rickash wrote:Hi, I am trying to get a good recording on 1.3.11 version. It crackles, clicks & faulters no matter what I do. I have a XP with the Realtech sound s/w.

which is the *it* that is crackling ?
xp or realtek ?

or do you think audacity is injecting crackling noises ?

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