Audacity and ASUS motherboard

[jba]

Hi
I’ve tried everything, but with my new ”1 year old” ASUS computer, recording is impossible.
If someone will help me – don’t ask me to check common things in setup. Audacity was working perfect on my old computer, is working right away on my wifes, and on my work PC at my job. But with my Asus – no way.
I want to grab what comes out of my speakers – in my stereoreceiver - the LINE signal.
I choose the “Stereomix” input. Record – the meter indicates only 25 % of full metering. The recording slider is set to maximum.
The waveform display shows of course very small peaks, and playback is indicated with a level – same as the record level about 25%.
The sound is a “small” scratching thing.
What bothers me is that all computers I’ve installed Audacity on are working right away.
The drivers (sound) should be the latest.
I use Win XP pro – Sp2
It’s an Asus P5V-vm motherboard – with a G965 chipset.

Today I panicked and downloaded a trial version of the program Audiograbber 1.83 and it worked right away (as I expected Audacity – as usual – would do).

What ???

Jens

[kozikowski]

<<<The sound is a “small” scratching thing.>>>

That's important. You get digital or analog noise unrelated to the desired show, or the show with a lot of distortion? Take your short capture and normalize it using the Normalize filter defaults. Can you post a bit of that somewhere?

This machine has the "audio card" burned into the motherboard, right?

Koz

[jba]

Hi - Koz, and thanks for your intrest in my problem.

Yes the audio board is a "onboard" type, and if everything fails the only way I can solve this problem is to buy a separate audioboard and mount it in the computer.

I've just made a test recording - as usual very small sound - and even if I use normalize filter it change nothing. The wave displayed after is thicker, but
the sound weak and noisy.

I would like to send you a test record - please send me a mail if you would like to se/hear.

Find my emailadress on my homepage http://www.jenstryl.dk/html/kontakt_mig.html - click the e-mail square.

)ens

[waxcylinder]

Yes the audio board is a "onboard" type, and if everything fails the only way I can solve this problem is to buy a separate audioboard and mount it in the computer.

Or you could consider an external USB soundcard - the Gehringer UCA202 or the Edirol UA-1EX are woth considering.

WC