plese help me with soundcard problem!!!

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Posted by Phanta C 2001 on Jul-06-2001 23:44:

plese help me with soundcard problem!!!

My understanding is that if you get a good soundcard you will get better sounding CDr when you burning them from progs like Traktor, CE, REASON, ETC...an i right? and i got soundblaster live x-gamer 5.1...does any one know how to install these things???? i tought it would be easy but i cant get it to work!

Posted by XxClayxX on Jul-06-2001 23:51:

ill try

I think your right about the better soundcard better quality, but I think thats if your using stuff outside your computer like synths because it reduces latency.

As for your soundcard a number of things could of happened. First make sure that you uninstalled your old soundcard's drivers before you put in your new one. The old drivers could cause some conflicts.

Explain your situation a little more I'll try and help best I can

Posted by Phanta C 2001 on Jul-06-2001 23:58:

ok...i wanna make a mix CD that i can give to a club...I want it to be a clear as can be. Yesterday i made a mix using traktor and burnt it on a cd and played it my car and it sounded like shit...there was a little humming and a little destortion...so today i went out and bought a new soundcard. i cant get it installed properly but would this solve my problem any ways??? i was gonna try hooking up my generic soundcard to my home cd burner, woud that help?? I DUNNO!! WHAT IS THE EASYIEST/BEST WAY TO GET CLEAR DIGITAL SOUND FROM MY COMPUTER ONTO A CDR??!?!

Posted by XxClayxX on Jul-07-2001 00:05:

I think that the better soundcard should help.

Now what exactly is going wrong try to describe it as best you can.

Posted by Phanta C 2001 on Jul-07-2001 00:14:

after i install it and it restarts...windows 98 doesnt load properly...it goes into safe mode and nothing works, so i had to uninstall it

Posted by XxClayxX on Jul-07-2001 00:51:

Did you uninstall the drivers for your old soundcard first??

Posted by Boy trance on Jul-07-2001 05:27:

Crap, I got a sound problem too, but mine don't seem as yours, Phanta C, I'll wait 'till yours is resolved before I ask ma question!

Posted by XxClayxX on Jul-07-2001 14:36:

Boy Trance ask away yours might be eaiser to solve than Phanta's

Posted by Cru54d3r on Jul-07-2001 15:02:

Try moving the sound card to a different pci slot, sb sound cards have probs with certain pci slots, especially pci slot 2 (next to agp)

Crusader

Posted by Boy trance on Jul-07-2001 19:17:

Alright, I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard, and two desktop speakers. So I have the Soundblaster settings set for two speakers, but when I set the balance (L/R) to the center, the sound is very distant and echoes! But when I put the balance all the way to the right or left, it sounds full, and normal, BUT, when certain tunes have sounds that travel from one speaker to the other, the sound is lost when it moves to the opposite side that I have set on the balance, you know? Is this a speaker problem, soundcard problem or what?

Posted by Cru54d3r on Jul-07-2001 19:19:

Try and have a fiddle with ur sb live mixer settings

Crusader

Posted by Boy trance on Jul-07-2001 20:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Cru5ad3r
Try and have a fiddle with ur sb live mixer settings

Crusader

I have bud, nothing's worked!

Posted by XxClayxX on Jul-07-2001 23:11:

Did you try seeing if you had any environments loaded sometimes that can mess things up.

Posted by Boy trance on Jul-07-2001 23:38:

quote:
Originally posted by XxClayxX
Did you try seeing if you had any environments loaded sometimes that can mess things up.

That's what I first thought the problem was, but nope, all environments are off! I can't explain it! Do you think my speakers might be mono? That can't be! I dunno!

Posted by goldenarmZ on Jul-08-2001 00:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Phanta C 2001
ok...i wanna make a mix CD that i can give to a club...I want it to be a clear as can be. Yesterday i made a mix using traktor and burnt it on a cd and played it my car and it sounded like shit...there was a little humming and a little destortion...so today i went out and bought a new soundcard. i cant get it installed properly but would this solve my problem any ways??? i was gonna try hooking up my generic soundcard to my home cd burner, woud that help?? I DUNNO!! WHAT IS THE EASYIEST/BEST WAY TO GET CLEAR DIGITAL SOUND FROM MY COMPUTER ONTO A CDR??!?!

I'm not sure why your cd's are burning at low quality, but I do know that a new soundcard won't help. cd's are burnt digitally through the IDE interface.... It's got nothing to do with the soundcard.

Posted by Boy trance on Jul-08-2001 04:00:

Okay, uh just a correction about my problem, if anybody can help me out, is that when I put the balance to the left the sound fades completely! All the way left = no sound! So like I mentioned before, I lack certain elements that 'stereo' music has to offer! If somebody can be of assistance, it'd be greatly appreciated!

-Boy trance

Posted by tc-fan on Jul-08-2001 04:19:

i hope you all didnt get a cheap sound card...get a SBlive card..

Posted by XxClayxX on Jul-08-2001 15:34:

quote:
Originally posted by Boy trance
Okay, uh just a correction about my problem, if anybody can help me out, is that when I put the balance to the left the sound fades completely! All the way left = no sound! So like I mentioned before, I lack certain elements that 'stereo' music has to offer! If somebody can be of assistance, it'd be greatly appreciated!

-Boy trance

Did you make sure that all your wires are connected firmly???

Posted by Boy trance on Jul-08-2001 17:15:

Yes!