[audacity4blind] USB Headsets, sound cards and multiple port adapters
- From: Sharni-Lee Ward <sharni-lee.ward@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:30:02 +0930
I got a very fancy set of headphones for my birthday (a Turtle Beach Px5,
according to my search history). The installation process was really
complicated so my sister went to do it for me. She'd almost finished when she
got a warning that the sound card was invalid or something (I wasn't there and
we haven't tried it since).
I'm on a laptop, and I've looked through my system but don't seem to have an
inbuilt soundcard. The problem with getting another one is that my PC only has
two USB ports. I use one for my internet, and the other for memory sticks and
the like. I would need one for the headset, whether I was using the wireless
modem thing that makes it awesome or plugging it directly into the computer
(presumably to be charged). Then, I'll need another USB port for the soundcard
needed to run the headset in the first place.
Being an expensive thing, I'm hoping the microphone is of better quality than
the ones on the headsets I've used in the past. I read somewhere on the wiki
that attaching devices via a multiport USB adapter (which I'm going to need if
this has a chance of working out at all) affects the recording quality in a
negative way, but I don't understand how that could be, and as I said, I'll
need one if I'm going to set this thing up on my computer at some point in the
foreseeable future.
I need some tech-savvy list member to explain things for me. If there's a
solution to my soundcard problem that's easy to implement (meaning we don't
have to be tech-savvy or pay someone else to get the job done), I'd appreciate
knowing that as well. I would love to test this thing out in Audacity. If I can
get a decent recording from it, I'd be seriously rapt. :)
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