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Originally Posted by mort

DAMN ALL THOSE RED SPECKS ARE NOTHING BUT HISS NOISE AND DISTORTION CORRECT !


WAS THIS A SND CARD THAT IS BUILT INTO A MOTHERBOARD ?

I HEAR THOSE ARE REALLY FUCKING AWFUL

Yeah, this was from an on-board card. The rest of the crap is the other miscellaneous noise components the card introduces, Just remember I did normalize a bit to emphasize what happens when you boost a signal that was captured with insufficient volume. That would bring up the lower level noise as well as any tape hiss that was captured.

The moral:

Get a freaking decent soundcard. Some experts recommend an external card so that you dont pick up any additional noise from the hi-frequency components in side the computer.

If you don't capture or induce noise, you won't have to try to take it out.......