[audacity4blind] Re: USB Headsets, sound cards and multiple port adapters
- From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:50:04 -0500
I'm not sure if there is confusion in the thread. The headset will be
recognized as a sound card by the computer if things work as they should.
There is no reason to purchase another sound card. I don't know if your
last message where you speak of your mother getting a cheap adapter is
about a USB hub or a cheap sound card.
The message you responded to mistakenly used the term adapter when the
term sound card should have been used when speaking of the cheap device he
got from working on someone else's computer. the first part of the
message was about hubs, the second part was about sound cards. As I said,
you don't need another sound card and purchasing one wouldn't solve your
problem in any way.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
> 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
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> 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
> ...Roger Wilco wants to welcome you, to the space janitor's
> 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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