koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Ashley) (08/17/88)
I recently bought the A1000 version of the perfectsound audio digitizer. There is a terrible problem with it. Even when I ground the inputs, if I turn the gain all the way up I get noise. Also everything I sample sounds muffled. And even with the gain turned down and the inputs are grounded, the sample is going between 00,FF,and 01 I think. Has anyone else had problems with their PerfectSound? Perhaps this is an inherent design flaw. I could have built something myself to do A to D, but I decided it would be faster and safer to buy one. I figured that anything I would make would have noise, and a bought one wouldn't. I guess I was wrong. Maybe putting bypass capacitors inside would help. Maybe I just have a bad one. Any suggestions would be very welcome. I must also complain about the Psound software that goes with it. It is trash. Audiomaster is much better. I have been playing with the demo version, so I cannot save, but that doesn't matter as I don't have a use for it anyway.
Lee_-_Wells@cup.portal.com (09/03/88)
I have Psound and it seems to work just fine. while in preview (before i click the mouse to start digitizing) I seem to get a little crakling sound, but when I play the sound back it seems fine try inputing from different sources. mayb you are overdriving it it uses line inputs, preamp level. try the audio out from a vcr if you have one. Lee - Wells