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