Creative Sound Recorder Download
Sherilyn Peacher
When i was listening mucis from Spotify, i noticed some Sound Distortion in miliseconds throughout the whole song. So i run Sound Recorder in Windows 11 and selected 'Digital Audio Interface (Sound BlasterG3)' to record system sound. I pressed back to back to volume blue scroll circle button then noticed the problem exactly. If you can listen carefully you hear some Sound Distortions / Cracklings in the sound.
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For reasons I'm not clear on, you are asking a question and answering your own question with some of the worst information I've seen here in a while. I'd ask for the manager and tell the manager to fire that guy that suggested those devices you've just posted. The nerve of some people to give you such bad advice. So let's be realistic here. You want the best of the most awful sound card you can buy right? You are trying to judge the quality of the crappy soundcard by the misinformation of its supposed quality specifications. And of course, you can certainly hear the difference between that device and the one that cost $15 like the one you are currently using. But unfortunately it's crap. Better you should spend your money on an actual, designed for professional use, USB soundcard that has a pair of XLR microphone inputs that also double as actual line level inputs. And you're going to find pretty much just 24 bit, 96 kHz. 192 kHz really doesn't make any difference in fact it can be counterproductive. That nonsense doesn't mean anything if you don't have the quality microphones and the quality preamps to go into a integrated circuit chip gizmo that can convert your analog audio that came in via decent input and decent output electronics instead of toy junk like you are currently thinking about screwing up your life with. Don't go there, please don't. We can't keep you from jumping and we won't call the police. And since you indicate budget issues are already a factor, you probably need to keep this under $150? Maybe less? And you really have a lot of Audacity... asking us a question about a crappy soundcard that you only use with Audacity, when a $150 soundcard will also get you a $200 entry level multitrack audio software package. And that's what you need not this toy stuff.
I am not doing vocal recordings (hence I did not talk about mics), but rather, line outs from other audio sources. Specifically, stuff that have a 3.5mm jack (e.g. laptops, that VHS recorder with a adaptor). And no, I do not need multitrack audio too; that's why I am ok with Audacity (will test out Adobe Soundbooth if I have the time; happen to have a copy lying somewhere in my house).
Your desire to take the audio output from a laptop to record it back into another computer makes very little sense. That's precisely why we are living in the digital age. Whatever is on your laptop, in your laptop, can simply be output on a USB memory stick. There is no logical sense to taking the audio output. The VHS machine, that's a different scenario obviously. It's not already in your computer. So that actually requires a real-time analog playback to digital ingestion. It seems like you're having digital indigestion? So you need to be reading up a little bit more because you're not quite there yet. You have the basic understanding and fundamentals now you just need the proper direction and directions. So anything already in a computer is already in a computer and is ready to be manipulated and output from the computer in a digital manner because that's what they do. Anything that is purely analog, old records, VHS, Betamax all has to be digitally ingested through a conversion process and you don't need 192 kHz that's crazy. It's not crazy if you have a client that has requested 192 kHz 24-bit and is providing you with the proper and associated studio time payment to accomplish said project, which is going to have to be more than $110. On a personal level for yourself, you need nothing more than 16 bit, 44.1 kHz. I've been using that since 1983 and that's the standard we have adopted for broadest Playback compatibility around the world. And it still sticks to this day. IF, you are a record label and you'd need to archive stuff at its highest quality capabilities within the state of the art, you'll be spending a little more than $110 US on your equipment with which to transfer with. But you're not a record label. You're an individual consumer, with low-end consumer investments to be made of $110 US. My equipment and facilities have been a greater investment than $150,000 and I'm not a record label. That's a little more than $110. So you can utilize and $85 USB computer audio interface device which will yield much better results than trying to utilize the awful internal soundcards of every stinking computer on the market today. That $85 gizmo yields perfectly professional results for everyone. If you must have 24-bit, 192 kHz, I would suggest you find yourself a rich family to adopt you?
So it sounds like your direction is coming in to better focus now. There are so many decent entry-level USB audio devices, I'm sure you will find one within your price range and budget. One of the nicer units that also includes an incredible and expensive software package is the Pre-Sonus USB Audio Box which can be had for around $150 US. Now this particular device is incredibly well built and 100% professional. It's almost like having a little recording studio with a mixer you can hold in your hand. It has a line level inputs and quality XLR microphone inputs as well. The software package while being designed for avant-garde music production, it includes very important equalization, dynamic range and digital effects processing and enhancements in the software. This is far more comprehensive than Audacity and is included with the $150 device. It's not the Pre-Sonus, there are so many others to choose from and not just the Cakewalk unit since it is not available where you are. Surely being in a country where all of this is already made, there must be some avenues in which to obtain this? You live in a country that's rather large. Importing electronics? You should have no need to import any electronics because it's already built in your country. It's not built in the United States, Mexico, Germany, it's all made in China. You do know where China is don't you?
Yep, I am doing the recordings for my own use, should have made that clear in the first place, sorry about that. And I will be playing the files on computers instead (CDs aren't my thing I guess), hence my preference for 96KHz (or just 48KHz; 44.1KHz sounded a little weird but then again, I did those recordings a long time ago without much knowledge then). I also felt that as they will be for archival purposes, the better the formats of the recordings could be done in, the better. But then again, maybe I should do a serious hearing test and decide from there, after all, hard disk drives aren't cheap.
I'm getting whirring noise in mic recording (adjustng mic and mic-boost does not help) it also happens on ubuntu 11.04; so I guess it is a hardware issue. Strangely, I hear no noise in Windows XP in recording (sound recorder). Whereas in Archlinux, skype, audacity, arecord, gnome-sound-recorder all are having whirring noise.
That noise is probably caused by some other hardware in your computer. Built-in cards are not known for their sound quality, not because the sound controller and codec are bad but because they are not sufficiently isolated and shielded from interference from other components inside the computer/laptop. Record a few seconds of silence, open the wav file in audacity (can be other program) and ask it to plot the spectrum, you will see peaks around 5KHz, near 10KHz and near 15KHz, that is consistent with interference generated from a pwm source, with all the peaks around it maybe generated by aliasing in the sampling or other less noisy sources.
I am using a Creative sound card with included software that seems to allow ONLY selecting mike or line inputs for recording. My old Creative card's software also allowed using the what-u-hear signal, which includes sound from my PC's software sources. Can anyone tell me how to record the what-u-hear signal in the Sound Forge (version 4) editor with a Creative Sound Blaster Z series sound card?
Some PCs just plain cannot record what-you-hear natively. All of my Dell PCs (two desktops and two laptops) could record the stereo mix (what-you-hear) and both the Dell and Toshiba had Realtec soundcards, but the Toshiba lacked the sound settings to record the output (what-you-hear). It was a long time ago, but I think I used VB-CABLE for the Toshiba, which was a virtual audio cable that throughput audio to the speakers and to the input. I do not know if VB-CABLE works with Win 10 though. Both the Toshibas had the Vista OS.
In Windows sound srttings 'Playback' should be set to Speakers. the 'Record' menu should be set to 'Stereo mix'. Back in Sound Forge "Options> Preferences>Audio", set the audio device to 'Windows Classic Wave Driver', in the Playback menu tab, the Speakers (Realtec of whatever) should show, in the Record Tab menu, confirm "Stereo mix". When playing back a web radio or other streamed sound source, the SF input meters should show activity in the Record Options> Arm mode (record ready). There are variations in PCs and soundcards, so experimentation can be necessary.
Thank you both for your ideas. They sound as though they SHOULD work. But Sound Forge gives a "not found" error message when I attempt to record and anything other than the Creative SBZ device is selected. That is true even when I play with the windows options. These screen shots show the only combination I can find that works, but is right where I started and leaves no what-u-hear recording option in Sound Forge. My next step is to see if I can find something besides Sound Forge for recording. Thank you for your efforts.
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