I am a guitar player and wanted to start using my pc for some recording. I d'loaded the free program Audacity and plugged my guitar into my soundcard and recorded some tunes. They came out great but what I recorded was in G and when played back they came out in Gsharp. Always a semi-tone higher. I posted a question on the Audacity site and got some answers that my outgoing MHZs did not match my incoming MHZs etc etc. I did not understand a thing and kind of forgot about it.
Until Christmas when my wife bought me a Zoom H4 which is a digital recorder for my guitar, for bootlegging concerts etc etc etc.
Once again I recorded several tunes and when i do'loaded THEM to the pc they too played a semi-tone higher than the original. For example a tune in A played back in Bflat, a tune in E played back in F etc.
I am about to pull my freakin hair out. Someone on the Audacity site told me to check my soundcard and I think I did that. I am pretty sure I have an integrated soundcard cause from what I can see it is a Realtek AC97. I imagine it is the bottom of the line cause when I put this pc together with the guy at the store he told me since I was not a gamer I did not really need a good card.
So I guess what I am askin is if anything knows anything about soundcards and digital recording????? If I upgrade my soundcard would this problem go away???
I have asked 20 people and noone can give me a definite answer. All I want is the tunes I record to play back in the ORIGINAL KEY!!!!!
So if any of you kind souls has any knowledge of soundcards and digital recording and could give me any advice whatsoever I would be forever grateful.
And you would keep me from pulling out what is left of my hair.
Thanks so much for listening and I am sorry if this has nothing to do with the usual topics.
Almost hairless, Montreal Larry
PS> Also how difficult is it to change a soundcard???? I have Windows XP.