[sdiy] Sound recording softs part II

[harrybissell]

Hiya Scott...

Scott Gravenhorst wrote:

> 1816...  I think that's bad news.  I remember buying 3 cards at a
> computer swap years ago.  Withing 6 months, all were DEAD.  I do remember
> other herky jerky problems with them before they crapped the bed.  I
> cannot remember the "brand name" of the cards, but I do remember the
> chipset number.

I think mine is either an ACER FX-3D or the clone AOpen FX-3D.  I got it for
the
right price, including the tiny leetle speakers (free).  It works 'ok' but I
have never asked
it to record.  Maybe I'll try to get a soundblaster 16 or something. Thanks
for the tip.

H^) harry

>
>
> I'd get a different sound card.  The system isn't all that slow, it
> should work with a decent card, especially if you don't have other
> programs running (I also do a fresh boot for these things).
>
> harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net> wrote:
> >Hello Obi Wan Kenobi(s)
> >
> >Thanks for the tips. So far I'm still a non starter.  I downloaded
> >both Audacity and Emagic "LogicFun" (which does indeed look
> >like fun).
> >
> >Audacity seems to look pretty good, but I can only reach 16kbit
> >stereo before the stuttering sets in.  I have disabled everything in
> >sight (all background progs, virus scan, etc...). I tried disabling
> >Windows virtual memory (to no avail).
> >
> >I am able to use this machine to read and burn CDs so it seems its
> >not TOO dog-slow. But no luck with this sound card (yet).
> >
> >The card shows up in win98 as an Analog Devices 1816 chipset.
> >
> >The hard drive is big, but has a bios emulation to allow the drive
> >to be partitioned to larger than the standard Opti-viper bios allows.
> >I figure not to try and update the bios... might as well throw the
> >machine
> >out because it'll get screwed up for sure (even if I knew how to do it).
> >
> >It has 96M of memory...
> >
> >Anyone have any more good ideas or tricks... I'd like to keep this dog
> >going
> >for a while... its good for everything else I run.  I might consider
> >another soundcard,
> >but most modern units require WAY more resources than I've got :^P
> >
> >thanks for not laughing out loud :^P
> >
> >H^) harry
> >
>
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