I'm using Cool Edit 2000, and the sound quality is diabolical. I
record a section of music off a CD, and I get massive hiss and crackle
and the music sounds like it's coming out of a telephone. It's
appalling! I haven't used Cool Edit in years (I last used it for a
Degree at University) and I know the sound wasn't anything near as bad
as this. Could anyone suggest to me what it is I'm doing wrong?

"Eder" wrote in message
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I'm using Cool Edit 2000, and the sound quality is diabolical. I
record a section of music off a CD, and I get massive hiss and crackle
and the music sounds like it's coming out of a telephone. It's
appalling! I haven't used Cool Edit in years (I last used it for a
Degree at University) and I know the sound wasn't anything near as bad
as this. Could anyone suggest to me what it is I'm doing wrong?

How did you record it? Analog to soundcard or did you rip it digitally? If
soundcard, what kind and what connection did you use (mic or line)?

"Ricky W. Hunt" wrote in message news:4W_xb.350756$Fm2.352804@attbi_s04...
"Eder" wrote in message
om...
I'm using Cool Edit 2000, and the sound quality is diabolical. I
record a section of music off a CD, and I get massive hiss and crackle
and the music sounds like it's coming out of a telephone. It's
appalling! I haven't used Cool Edit in years (I last used it for a
Degree at University) and I know the sound wasn't anything near as bad
as this. Could anyone suggest to me what it is I'm doing wrong?

How did you record it? Analog to soundcard or did you rip it digitally? If
soundcard, what kind and what connection did you use (mic or line)?

I used every way! Mic,line and from CD. But it may not be a Cool Edit
problem, because I've tried the same thing using Windows Sound
recorder, and the quality is just the same - unlistenable. So there's
something in Windows that's not right. God knows what it is.

"Eder" wrote in message
om...
"Ricky W. Hunt" wrote in message
news:4W_xb.350756$Fm2.352804@attbi_s04...
"Eder" wrote in message
om...
I'm using Cool Edit 2000, and the sound quality is diabolical. I
record a section of music off a CD, and I get massive hiss and crackle
and the music sounds like it's coming out of a telephone. It's
appalling! I haven't used Cool Edit in years (I last used it for a
Degree at University) and I know the sound wasn't anything near as bad
as this. Could anyone suggest to me what it is I'm doing wrong?

How did you record it? Analog to soundcard or did you rip it digitally?
If
soundcard, what kind and what connection did you use (mic or line)?

I used every way! Mic,line and from CD. But it may not be a Cool Edit
problem, because I've tried the same thing using Windows Sound
recorder, and the quality is just the same - unlistenable. So there's
something in Windows that's not right. God knows what it is.

C'mon. Give us some help, here. What sound card... on board or PCI? What
operating system? Win98/ME/2000/XP?? Do CD music files play back okay.
Can you play a wave file and does it sound good? Have you used the same
input cable for all of your tests? What have you eliminated? I mean are
you certain that the signal leaving the amp or mixer or whatever is good?
Does it play well if plugged into an amplifier/speaker system.

Steve King

In rec.audio.pro, (Eder) wrote:

"Ricky W. Hunt" wrote in message news:4W_xb.350756$Fm2.352804@attbi_s04...
"Eder" wrote in message
om...
I'm using Cool Edit 2000, and the sound quality is diabolical. I
record a section of music off a CD, and I get massive hiss and crackle
and the music sounds like it's coming out of a telephone. It's
appalling! I haven't used Cool Edit in years (I last used it for a
Degree at University) and I know the sound wasn't anything near as bad
as this. Could anyone suggest to me what it is I'm doing wrong?

How did you record it? Analog to soundcard or did you rip it digitally? If
soundcard, what kind and what connection did you use (mic or line)?

I used every way! Mic,line and from CD. But it may not be a Cool Edit
problem, because I've tried the same thing using Windows Sound
recorder, and the quality is just the same - unlistenable. So there's
something in Windows that's not right. God knows what it is.

I suspect the short answer is 'buffers too small' and/or other
programs taking up processor time, and [even presuming there IS enough
processor cycles to service everything] by the time it gets round to
reading more data from the soundcard, the buffer has overflowed. You
can change the buffer size (in CE2000, Options-Settings-System and
increase the buffer size and/or number of buffers), but if the defualt
settings aren't working, I would suspect too-much-other-crap-running.
It may well be other things take up so much processor time that
there's not enough left for audio recording, no mattter how big the
buffers are. To get rid of other things taking up processor time,
press ctrl-alt-delete and see what all's running. Or go start-run,
type msconfig (in 98/ME, maybe other vers too), click ok, and see what
gets loaded at bootup on your system. It's amazing how much crap gets
loaded as "a convenience" so this program can "start running faster",
hplamp so the scanner's lamp doesn't burn all the time (but why load
it before I run a scan program???). Doing this, you also see where the
viruses have installed themselves.

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