[audacity4blind] Re: USB Headsets, sound cards and multiple port adapters
- From: Sharni-Lee Ward <sharni-lee.ward@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:37:51 +0930
I have an Asus laptop (don't know the exact model, but I got it in 2012 and it
has Windows 7).
My mum got a cheep USB adapter and it didn't work for her AT ALL. I'll have to
get a more expensive but (hopefully) more efficient one. I will also have to
sit down with my sister and try installing the thing again. At the very least
I'll know exactly what the problem is if I hear it myself.
From: jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: USB Headsets, sound cards and multiple port
adapters
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:46:25 +0200
What form of computer are you using?
Asking since if it's a desktop PC, you could have
either an actual sound card installed, or additional USB ports.
Otherwise, USB splitters/multiple adapters should
generally be cheap enough to at least try out, allowing you to use multiple USB
devices on one actual port/socket, but, what have noticed on my desktop PC,
when
then doing things like copying lots of large files onto a flash drive using
something like that is there might be a slightly slower transfer/copying
rate/speed, and, suppose that might affect it when using it to include
connecting a USB soundcard.
And, I do have at least one, el cheapo, USB sound
adapter here, but, got hold of it more to do with using someone else's PC, even
if they didn't have an internal sound card installed, and it's worked alright
on
windows7 and windows XP, for sort of testing purposes, but, other issue there
was that it only has a mono microphone socket, along with sound output, but,
has
no stereo line-in, for actual recording, but, it's definitely a cheap, bottom
of
the range model, FWIW.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype:
BlindZA
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closet...
----- Original Message -----
From:
Sharni-Lee Ward
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 7:00
PM
Subject: [audacity4blind] USB Headsets,
sound cards and multiple port adapters
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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