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Hey everyone, newbee here…not to recording, have used all versions of ProTools and well, thats a long story and my exwife resides with the moneyman of that project. Life is good now. Anyway, on my laptop, Sony Vaio/dual core, I’m using my Asio drivers and though I can see signal, (up to -35), with headphones on, before recording, everything is clear as a bell while there is no guitar/mic signal. Upon playback, well it sounds worse than my little recorded messages on my cell phone. The hiss is overpowering. I record in a quiet room and the only thing I can think of is that, even though I’m using my mic/speaker outputs on the Vaio, the sound is coming from the processor in the computer itself. I searched for filters, but to no avail. Thanks for enduring this wordy question, but does anyone have suggestions or solutions?
thanks again,
chuz
Hi chuz:
You shouldn’t be getting noise like that from any tracks you record on your laptop…
If you use the mic input to your audio card, make sure you use just(only) a computer mic in that input jack…
If you use any other device to record then use the “Aux” input to capture the audio signal…
I present that idea to you as something to lookout for and something for you to consider… when you record your tracks…
Bill…
Yea, thanks Bill, I did find yet another sound card setting and it zeroed out the left side, but still have about a -50 on the right. I’ll keep pluggin’ away and get it down, so I appreciate it.
chuz
If your laptop only has a mic input the background noise could be -50 dB. Ideally you would use the line input if it had one.
Checking my soundblaster PCI card with the faders at max
Mic i/p is -52dB Line i/p is -68dB as measured on n-track Rec meters.