Digital distortion

Hello. Having some trouble with some digital distortion when using hardware buffer in Asio4all. Increasing sample rate does nothing. Reducing recording volume does nothing. Anyone know what could be causing this? Set up : ----------------------------------------------- Epiphone Swingster - Guitar TC Electronics M300 - Effects box Vox Pathfinder 10 - Guitar amp Asus Essence stx ii - Soundcard Electrocompaniet EC-2 - Hi-Fi Amplifier PSB Century 1000i - Speakers ----------------------------------------------- Computer specs : ----------------------------------------------- Asus M5 A97 R2.0 Amd FX 4350 Quad core 4214Mhz Asus Essence stx ii 8G Ram

What happens with normal Windows drivers? Is there a reason why you think you need "half-ASIO"? I'm not sure what you mean by "digital distortion". If you are getting "glitches" it could be buffer overflow. Try increasing the buffer size, don't multitask while recording, and you may have to turn-off anti-virus or anything else running in the background. Note - A higher sample rate means you are dealing with more data and you are more likely to have buffering problems. You might try plugging something else into your soundcard (a CD or DVD player, etc.) to make sure it's not the effects box or guitar amp.

DVDdoug 

Sorry, I meant increasing asio buffer size does nothing. By digital distortion I mean that I have a little bit of distortion when I record and It has kind of a computer sound to It, also when I'm not using distortion. No glitches though, everything runs smoothly. Not quite sure what you mean by "half-Asio", but If by that you mean as to why I'm not using the built in Asio on my interface It's simply because I never got It working. It's the same issue with the Windows drivers.

I think we have besides the driver problem also a "latency overrated" problem. as said, lower your samplerate to 44.1kHz. if you have then a latency of 2.6ms you are fine. no need to push it to 0.3ms. because: in 0.3ms the sound travels 10cm. in other words: normally you are sitting around 1m from your speakers. in that case you have a latency of 3ms. that latency wouldnt bother anybody. on stage you have latencies of 30ms in bad cases. (I hope I am calculating correct ...) so, why bother of a latency of 2.6ms?? you cant hear that, because if you play electric guitar that is normal. and really low latencies like 0.3ms cost you lots CPU power that you need for other things. so this chasing for latencies is not a good thing. a good thing is to dont care about latencies and set them higher, years ago I had 750ms latency. no problem, because I didnt monitor through the computer. get yourself a y-cable, record one and sent the other cable to a monitoring system. that doesnt matter what that is. so you can hear your sound "without" latency (remember, there is always latency, outside of computers) and record without worrying about latencies. and I can tell you, 750ms latency is a joy for the CPU. :D

whiteaxxxe 

whiteaxxxe 

Also, sadly I haven' got enough money to buy a mixer anytime soon..

DVDdoug & whiteaxxxe