F17, audacity recording what you hear

[Claude Jones]

On 1/31/2013 2:41 PM, Frank Elsner wrote:
> on my Lenovo C200 I've no Problem to record what I hear using audacity.
>
> But ... on my Lenovo X121e the recording sounds really bad.
> It sounds like a tin can. But is not clipped. The level is also ok.
>
> Any idea what might be the reason?

In preferences, in the "Recording" section, do you have software 
playthrough checked? It should not be unless you're specifically using 
that feature.
In the "Quality" section, there are settings you can play with, have you 
checked those?

It's hard to say what your problem is because "sounds like a tin can" is 
not very helpful - you say it's not clipping and that the levels are OK. 
The above is what I can come up with so far - I do lots of recording of 
audio I'm playing on my various PCs and laptops, and if I can get 
Audacity to 'see' the signal, then it generally sounds good... Some 
combinations of hardware/drivers will not work, but generally, it's all 
or nothing - that's been my experience on lots of installations.

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Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA