People I talk to on Skype claim to hear static coming from my end. I ran a test in Audacity and I could hear the static as well. The microphone I'm using is an MXL 990 and I'm using and Icicle Preamp (
This thing) to connect the mic to my laptop through USB. I'm copying over any and all specs that would help.
Here is the link.
I've tried disabling my internal mic and that didn't work. Before I got this laptop, I was using a laptop that had XP on it and it worked fine. I did spray febreeze in the room and on the mic so that everything would smell nice (I was trying to clean up the room). I tried using both my internal mic and another USB one and they worked fine. I also tried using a different USB cord to hook up my mic to my laptop and I was told there was static.
What should I do? I've been having this problem for a while now and it's starting to get on my nerves. Thanks in advanced.
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on Feb 21, 2013 -
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posted by parmanparman
on Mar 1, 2011 -
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I need help un-disorted a sound clip. There is a sound in Civilization 4 that plays whenever you discover Judaism. I could not place it--and I know my Jewish prayers--so I dug in the install folder and found the full file. It is heavily distorted in a way I cannot quite figure out. Could someone help me see if this was ever a prayer to begin with, or was just random vocalizations approved as being "Jewish enough" in order to avoid offending people with actual prayers?
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on Oct 5, 2010 -
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on Mar 2, 2010 -
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on Dec 9, 2007 -
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posted by Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam
on Sep 21, 2007 -
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I'm looking for a tutorial on using Audacity to record streaming audio off the net. I can get it to record sound, but it seems to be doing it through my microphone with corresponding degraded quality and ambient noise.
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I've got a phone conversation that's going to become a podcast. How can I use
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on Jan 7, 2007 -
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on Oct 30, 2006 -
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