Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] sounblaster live platinum and full-duplex recording (noisy)
From: John Check (j4strngs_AT_bitless.net)
Date: Sat Aug 14 2004 - 07:05:46 EEST
On Friday 13 August 2004 11:30 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> recording seems to be working OK but:
>
> in audacity when I record the track it sounds OK
>
> however if I generate click track and record then (the click track is
> playing while I am recording) the recording is really bad (noisy, low
> quality).
>
> I vaguely remember something about full-duplex on sounblaster not
> being very good, i.e. there's something wrong when using it but don't
> remember what (bitrate being forced to be very low or something along
> those lines).
Which soundblaster? The "original" ISA soundblasters were like that, and the
"soundblaster PCI" cards with the ens1371 chipset have asymmetric sample
rates for playback/capture, but I can overdub with my SBLive platinum and it
sounds normal.
>
> However I can't find any information on that subject now (I tried
> google and creative site), does anybody know details and/or have some
> pointers to relevant docs?
>
> system: debian unstable, 2.6.5 kenrel (with alsa), sounblaster live
> platinum (with live drive).
>
How do you have the mixer set up?
Which input are you recording from?
What mixer app are you using?
> TIA
>
> erik
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