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Subject:Am I Double Screwed?
Posted by: Kermit
Date:3/31/1999 9:00:32 PM

I believe that I'm having trouble with my sound card my
Sonic Forge software. I'm only getting one track to
record. No major problem, I thought, I'll just switch track
and record the tracks for my right and left speakers
separately and them combine them later. After all, that is
the sort of thing that his software is designed for.
Problem is that after I did that, the sound was badly
distorted. This brings me to my problem with Sound Forge
(4.0B). Just how fast does a computer have to be to run
this software? On the box, it says that it will run on a
486; I have a 166 mhz Pentium and still have to record at
the lowest possible sample rates if I'm not to get clicking
sounds and bad distortion. Am I screwed, or just stupid?

Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by:
Date:4/2/1999 2:47:45 AM

Kermit,

You guys have a virus or something?

You sent 5 messages of the same thing each with a 3 minute
delay... Check your machine for the Melissa Virus...

JS


Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by:
Date:4/5/1999 1:13:25 PM

For some reason many of the messages here are being doubled (or worse!
check out Spectral's many identical posts!!!). I have a funny feeling it
the Sonic Foundry news server doing it - it's happening in the CD
Architect forum as well.




Jorge Silvestrini wrote:
>
> Kermit,
>
> You guys have a virus or something?
>
> You sent 5 messages of the same thing each with a 3 minute
> delay... Check your machine for the Melissa Virus...
>
> JS

Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by:
Date:4/5/1999 7:58:33 PM

>For some reason many of the messages here are being doubled (or worse!
>check out Spectral's many identical posts!!!). I have a funny feeling it
>the Sonic Foundry news server doing it - it's happening in the CD
>Architect forum as well.

I don't know, but almost every message here is beign duplicated, except
Bruce's and mine...
Are all of you guys using the server from the Sonic Foundry page or your
own News Reader?

Jorge Silvestrini



Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by:
Date:4/6/1999 3:47:26 AM

I'm using Netscape Messenger (4.5), pointing to news.sonficfoundry.com
(my ISP doesn't provide a news server). My message doesn't appear
duplicated, at least not that I can see!


Very weird... maybe they're hitting SEND too many times!??!



Jorge Silvestrini wrote:
>
> >For some reason many of the messages here are being doubled (or worse!
> >check out Spectral's many identical posts!!!). I have a funny feeling it
> >the Sonic Foundry news server doing it - it's happening in the CD
> >Architect forum as well.
>
> I don't know, but almost every message here is beign duplicated, except
> Bruce's and mine...
> Are all of you guys using the server from the Sonic Foundry page or your
> own News Reader?
>
> Jorge Silvestrini

Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by:
Date:4/6/1999 4:42:47 AM

>Very weird... maybe they're hitting SEND too many times!??!

Maybe. Your message is fine. I only received one...

JS



Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by:
Date:4/6/1999 1:06:43 PM

Good thing, too... you don't want to hear too much of me!!!!!
;o)




Jorge Silvestrini wrote:
>
> >Very weird... maybe they're hitting SEND too many times!??!
>
> Maybe. Your message is fine. I only received one...
>
> JS

Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by: slappy
Date:8/23/1999 8:42:00 PM

hmmmmm... clicking, distortion,one channel...check your video. ;-)

Change your graphics acceleration to none (in the control panel -) and
reduce your colors to 16 (colors -not bits)Right click on the
desktop..properties ->settings, etc. If the sound is good, try moving
the SF window around while the file is playing back. If the clicking
and distortion return - go to zefiro acoustic.com and read "video
kills audio"

Hope this helps,

Slappy

Christopher wrote:
>>I believe that I'm having trouble with my sound card my
>>Sonic Forge software. I'm only getting one track to
>>record. No major problem, I thought, I'll just switch track
>>and record the tracks for my right and left speakers
>>separately and them combine them later. After all, that is
>>the sort of thing that his software is designed for.
>>Problem is that after I did that, the sound was badly
>>distorted. This brings me to my problem with Sound Forge
>>(4.0B). Just how fast does a computer have to be to run
>>this software? On the box, it says that it will run on a
>>486; I have a 166 mhz Pentium and still have to record at
>>the lowest possible sample rates if I'm not to get clicking
>>sounds and bad distortion. Am I screwed, or just stupid?

Subject:Re: Am I Double Screwed?
Reply by: tad
Date:1/5/2000 11:10:00 AM

The audio cable your using might be hosed. Try another cable before
you start messing with drivers and the like. The simplest
explanation is usually where the problem lies.

I think you're going to want to start thinking about building a new
machine. A 166 mhz is probably not going to cut it with a lot of
sound aps and narrows your tolerance levels while trouble shooting.
A 166 mhz machine is pretty much a paper weight these days.

Hope this helps.

-Tad


Christopher wrote:
>>I believe that I'm having trouble with my sound card my
>>Sonic Forge software. I'm only getting one track to
>>record. No major problem, I thought, I'll just switch track
>>and record the tracks for my right and left speakers
>>separately and them combine them later. After all, that is
>>the sort of thing that his software is designed for.
>>Problem is that after I did that, the sound was badly
>>distorted. This brings me to my problem with Sound Forge
>>(4.0B). Just how fast does a computer have to be to run
>>this software? On the box, it says that it will run on a
>>486; I have a 166 mhz Pentium and still have to record at
>>the lowest possible sample rates if I'm not to get clicking
>>sounds and bad distortion. Am I screwed, or just stupid?

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