occasional noise

[sombunya]

I'm using 2.0 with Windows 7 to digitize vinyl.

My habit has been to monitor the source before I hit the record button. Occasionally I'll get some static that sounds like a dusty, damaged record by the way it repeats. However, it does not repeat at the speed the record turns.

If I start the vinyl disc playing and then hit the record button without pre-monitoring the program I do not experience this.

Although it doesn't do it every time it does it enough to be a bit annoying. If I let it go it will do it all the way through the entire side of the disc.

(fwiw, I'm recording a rather quiet disc as I type this, sounds very good)

Any thoughts on this are appreciated.

[PGA]

Does this section in the Wiki help?: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... hancements

[sombunya]

I don't believe the exact issue is listed there but I'll look around for those settings referred to in that article.

Also, this seems to be an i intermittent problem.

Thanks for the reply.

[sombunya]

I read the wiki article and wasn't sure about the recording devices they were talking about.

I also read about a crash another user experienced. The same thing happened to me, once. It just disappeared. That's with version 2.0.1.

Anyway, I was digitizing a vinyl record and I noticed about 3/4 of the way through the record the sound was terrible. My best description would be it sounded like loose connectors on my cartridge, although I've never really experienced that particular problem. Without stopping the record I stopped the recording process, went to "edit" and undid the recording, hit the record button and it started recording again, with perfect sound.

This is a persistent, intermittent problem that I've not experienced with version 2.0.0. I will probably go back to that version as it seemed to work quite well for me.

Any comments from anyone are always welcomed.

[sombunya]

FWIW, I un-installed 2.0.1 and re-installed 2.0.0. This problem seems to occur when I click "start monitoring". When I record without clicking "start monitoring" it has not happened so apparently it's something else and not simply because it is the latest version..

I won't go so far as to continue to try it both ways unless someone asks me to. I will report back here if things move smoothly doing it as referenced above.

And as I said before, any and all comments are welcomed, especially about the "recording devices" thing mentioned in the wiki article.

[steve]

You've not mentioned the word, but does "USB" come into this somewhere?

[sombunya]

You've not mentioned the word, but does "USB" come into this somewhere?

Sorry.
Windows 7 on a relatively new, very clean Dell Laptop. I'm using a NAD PP3i analog to Digital converter. Turntable is a Rega P3, about a year and a half old. The earlier posts describe the issue I'm experiencing.

As the thread indicates I'm getting noise problems. It seems to occur when I click "Start Monitoring". I've just recorded both sides of two discs, perfect.

I'll try it more, both pre-monitoring and not pre-monitoring and will report back here when I feel I can duplicate the problem at will. I should say if I can.

[steve]

Is the noise sudden bursts of full-scale (full track height) noise?

[PGA]

This problem seems to occur when I click "start monitoring".

Where do I find this option? I've had a good look through the command menus in my copy of 2.0.1 and did not spot it.

[waxcylinder]

This problem seems to occur when I click "start monitoring".

Where do I find this option? I've had a good look through the command menus in my copy of 2.0.1 and did not spot it.

Click on the little black triangle next to the microphone icon in the Meter Toolbar and you will see that option in the dropdown menu.

Alternatively you can simply click once in the input meter and then monitoring will start, click in there again and it stops.

And yes - it's not at all obvious in the GUI, some of us have nagged about this for years now. There is a proposal for meter toolbar improvements sitting on the Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Propo ... Toolbar_UI

WC