Topic: Audacity Vs. Vista - yeah we know it allready, but still..

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what the....

Hallo.

So I have set up Recoding devices and Playback devices in Vista, where by the way I have ONLY 2 options (yeah, I ticked option Show Disabled and Disconnected devices) in Recording Devices: Microphone and Wave out Mix (what's Wave Out Mix?). I did set up peferences in Audacity according to Vista's Recoding and Playback Devices setup.

Downloaded latest version of audio driver on HP page (I have HP Pavilion dv6527ea) called Conexant High Definition Audio.

If I click on hardware specification in case of sound for my laptop on HP page it says this:

Altec Lansing® speakers 3D Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound 16 bit integrated (bit confused what it actually means now...in connection to Conexant driver)

Anyway, conected my MD (headpones input ) with laptop (microphone input) to recrord from MD and the result I get is just horrible. Sound is I don't even know how to explain in english....unlistenable easy said. O yeah I've tried to change rates and sample formart according to those in Vista's: Recording Devices - Microfon - Properties - Advanced.

What's wrong? Is it driver? Is it Vista? Is it jack (I'm using one I've always used on my old computer...but with XP, hehe)?

Should I wait for upgrade of Vista? Should I buy external Sound Card (would that be working runing Audacity on Vista, or would it be the same)?

I mean quality of recording is disaster.

I would greatly appreciated any suggestion, advice or tip.

Thanks.

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Should I wait for upgrade of Vista? Should I buy external Sound Card (would that be working runing Audacity on Vista, or would it be the same)?

Upgrade Vista? Is that possible?   Oh yeah, I guess there is, it's called Mac OS X

But seriously. An external sound card is always a good choice if the input on the computer is the standard junk most Wintel vendors put on their computers. Apple isn't immune to this either, but they have started including a digital I/O on many of their "pro" series computers over the past few years.

You might see what others recommend for Vista compatible sound cards.

Wayne

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thanks!