[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 01:58:31 +0930
Then it was me who got confused. The message was rather jumbled. I was
referring to a cheap USB hub that my mother got. I thought that might have been
what the other person was referring to.
Thank you for the clarification. :)
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:50:04 -0500
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: USB Headsets, sound cards and multiple port
> adapters
> From: gsasner@xxxxxxxxx
> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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