PLEASE help with my guitar digital recording/soundcard problem !!!!!!!!!!!
Bobby McGee
hero. Forever.
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.
Bob Masta
I doubt this has anything to do with your sound card. It sounds <g>
like you have recorded your stuff at 44100 Hz sample rate, and are
playing it back at 48000 Hz. That raises all the pitches by a factor
of 1.088, which is about a semitone-and-a-half (a semitone is x1.059).
There should be controls in the software for recording and playback
sample rates... though why they wouldn't match by default is a
mystery. If you can't find any controls in the software itself, delve
into Control Panel and look for default sample rate settings for
record and playback.
Best regards,
Bob Masta
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Bobby McGee
Thanks for taking the time to try and help me.
Someone on one of the other places I posted this told me that the
first thing I should do was to update my soundcard driver. I did that
and it solved everything! That simple.
And I am thrilled.
But for the life of me I will never understand computers. Simple
things can be a pain in the ass to fix and what seems like a big
problem is nothing. Oh well................. :-)
Again Thanks so much