Help! Problem encountered during recording

[Dennis_Kabingue]

I am recording the Sermons in our church. From the mic, it goes to the mixer and out to the lap top. We are using Sound Forge 4.5 but durign this days we are experiencing a problem. It seems like there are certain points that the voice is recorded on top of the other. Pls help. Need it badly.

[Vernon Kuehn]

I have been doing what you are doing, and I have experienced the same problem you are describing.

In my case, I ask an underpowered laptop to do the job. (133Mhz processor.) What speed are you using?

I looked in the help files of my software (Cool Edit 2000), went to their website for suggested tweaks, and then went to a couple of web sites that have been mentioned on this forum for other suggested tweaks.

I had an extra hard drive that can be swapped for the regular hard drive. I formatted the drive, put WIN 98 LITE and CE2K only on that drive. Used the suggested tweaks for buffers, etc that I found in Help Files and web sites. After Recording I transfer the file to a more powerful machine for editing and clean off the laptop drive.

That solved my problems that match your description of problems.

It is still a less than desireable setup because the built-in sound card is limited to 44.1k and 16-bit. It has more residiual noise than desireable. It I let it record unattended (no manual gain manipulation) the quieter portions of the recording when normalized have a noise level that is noticeable.

Tweak, tweak, tweak is my advice.

[Dennis_Kabingue]

Originally posted by Vernon Kuehn:
I have been doing what you are doing, and I have experienced the same problem you are describing.

In my case, I ask an underpowered laptop to do the job. (133Mhz processor.) What speed are you using?

I looked in the help files of my software (Cool Edit 2000), went to their website for suggested tweaks, and then went to a couple of web sites that have been mentioned on this forum for other suggested tweaks.

I had an extra hard drive that can be swapped for the regular hard drive. I formatted the drive, put WIN 98 LITE and CE2K only on that drive. Used the suggested tweaks for buffers, etc that I found in Help Files and web sites. After Recording I transfer the file to a more powerful machine for editing and clean off the laptop drive.

That solved my problems that match your description of problems.

It is still a less than desireable setup because the built-in sound card is limited to 44.1k and 16-bit. It has more residiual noise than desireable. It I let it record unattended (no manual gain manipulation) the quieter portions of the recording when normalized have a noise level that is noticeable.

Tweak, tweak, tweak is my advice.

Thanks for the info. I was able to email Sonic Foundry and they confirm the problem is due to the compatibility of Win XP and Sound Forge 4.5.