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Inspiron 660 latency issues with sound card
I am having an issue with using my Ispiron 660 for recording live audio via a feed from the headphone jack of a Line 6 Pod XT500, There is a slight delay from the sound creation, (i.e plucking a guitar string), to the sound coming out of the speakers. This makes recording impossible since it has to happen in real time. I have tried every trick I know to get this right including:
- Updating the driver for the Conexant sound card via the Dell site to current.
- Erased the old driver to replace it with the new one.
- Unplugging the POD USB connection from the PC
- This essentially just makes it an audio output device like an Ipod.
- Spent over an hour on the phone with a very nice Dell tech who could not fix the issue
- Thinking it was the sound card I bought a Creative External Sound Blaster audio card that plugs into the USB port. The audio sound is great, (as it was on the Conexant), but hooking the POD up to it manifests the same issue.
- Tested the POD HD500 by plugging it directly into my computer speakers. There was no delaty, it worked perfectly.
I had the same exact setup on the old HP that this computer replaced, and it worked fine.I am just about at the end of my rope here. Does anyone have any insight on how to make this work?
Please????
Thanks!!!
Hi Speedy,
Thanks for your quick response. The issue here is that any signal sent through eiher the line in or mic input gets delayed before playing through the speakers. I took the POD and the USB ports out of the equation and plugged a microphone directly into the mic input and still experieinced the delay effect. As I said, I used the same POD isetu nto an older, (and slower) HP desktop and it was fine.
Simply put, a signal fed into the sound card somehoe gets delayed before cming out. The source of he signal is not significant.
Any and all insight is greatly appreciated!
The older computer was using windows 98, 2000, or XP and had an analog sound card not a digital sound card.
This is a driver and software issue and is not supported or related to the DELL hardware.
Newer computers have Digital only sound cards and are no longer analog amplifiers.
The older computer was running Windows 7.
I understand that this is a software/driver issue but both were provided by Dell.
Ae you telling me that this newer digital technology is not capable of processing and input signal (sound) and not being able to process it and output it through the speakers without a noticable delay? Why would they provide two types of input (line and mic) if the system cannot handle it.
I do think that this should work, regardless of what signal is being place into the input jakcs on the sound card.
Can someone, besides Speedy, chime in on this? Any pther folks having the issue? I am reasonably sure that if this was a common problem it would have been reported over and oer again.
My MAC friends are now all laughing at me for continuing my loyalty to the PC for recording,
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Posted October 14th, 2014 13:00
The Line 6 POD HD500 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor is not a dell product and not supported here.
The Inspiron 660 is not a 8 core mac pro.
"hooking things to the USB Bus uses system bandwidth"
This is why the usb controllers are not part of the southbridge in mac pros.