Weird Recording Issues

This is my first post , my friend Jay said I should go here, I'll preface this by saying this issue makes no sense to me. My laptop is a compaq 6Q60-215dx I'm using a laptop that has a amd athlon dual-core Ql62, x2 64 bit processor at 2ghz 2 gig ram 200 gb hd Some crappy laptop integrated sound (that I'm not using) Windows Vista home premium 32 bit with sp2. more computer info here I have installed and am using a "working" zoom h2. I have no doubt that the device works fine. The problem I have is when I am using either the zoom asio or even Asio4all I end up getting this bizarre latency issue. Basically, if I have the latency at 0, I can hear the sound clearly but the recording is plagued with clicks and pops. If I try to adjust the latency to a higher setting (to fix the pops)it completely garbles the sound, even if I put it at 1ms. This also happened with my pod xt, so I'm pretty sure this could be something with my laptop/os , but at least when I set that to the lowest latency setting, it was able to handle what I was doing.

most laptops have fixable issues (with things like wifi) that can be diagnosed with something like dpclat. search google or the forums for that keyword, there are stickies that cover it in detail.

Thanks a lot, I ran dpclat and then it analyzed/fixed the problem completely. ^_^

hey man, glad you made it here!!! i didnt see the post at first. I told you these people mean business ;) now go and get reaper

Glad it's sorted! What did dpclat reveal? I'm curious to know which driver was to blame

Actually it's not sorted, It's some sort of driver issue on start up, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I didn't read the description of that prog too deeply, and realized it just monitors. So funny enough I thought it ran some sort of patch or something while it monitored. I'm guessing there is some sort of IRQ issue with important devices, causing DCP issues. The only fix is to restart it and hope it works.

can someone put this thread in regular general discussion or somewhere it will get more notice? my friend put it in the spam trap

Go here : use the method described, and you should have a fair idea of where your problem lies. It certainly helped me!

Nocturnous are you recording to the same hard drive as win os resides on ?? if so..its not good practice. cos win can interrupt the audio process . the other aspect is laptop internal drives are poor performers. run a test useing a seperate external drive to record to. eg you can put a cheap drive in a 30 buk enclosure. another test is if your sound device (in this case the zoom..) is usb.. run the external drive from fw. and if the sound device is fw run the external drive as usb. this way the sound device is left free on the bus. frankly laps are a piglet and it takes some time to sort em out. i suspect your drive your useing is also a bottlekneck.