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[Mervin]

I am currently trying to record my behringer v-amp through my line in on my soundcard. I get the levels all ok and recording seems to go smoothly. However when i go to play the track back i get a distorted crackling sound. I have tried adjusting the mixer levels and the inputs are set to analogue L & R but no joy. My soundcard is an Nvidia on board so not great, but i have absolutely no problems recording in to Cool Edit Pro. Can anyone help ???
cheers mervin

[PJ]

Hi Marvin
well lets see Firstly, are you sure it is the inputs causing the problem? If the input config works ok in CoolEdit, it sounds kinda odd.

Have you had a play around with the "Device Setup" - then "VST Multitrack"?

These settings will have a large impact on the quality of digital audio playback, as you can select the appropriate Drivers (check this) Number of disk buffers and also disk buffer size.

Here is a screen shot of the area you might wanna "tweak" with, you can't break anything

[spono]

one thing to check that the crackling is actuall recorded into your audio and is not just on your Cubase playback..suggest

1 check your vst master bus is not peaking on playback ( the red 'clip' button will be on if the signal goes over)

2 check your vst 'input bus' as you are monitoring your level make sure after you have recorded that the red 'clip' light is not on (@the 'input bus is to the left of your mixer)

3 play back the audio you recorded in cubase from cool edit

I would check these points first before changing any buffers leave that to be the last resort!

good luck!

[Mervin]

Many thanks all,

thanks spono thats what i didnt do. seems to have sorted the problem many thanks again dude.