[audacity4blind] Re: USB Headsets, sound cards and multiple port adapters
- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- 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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----- 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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