[Harp-L] Really OT: US-122 USB Audio/MIDI Interface

["Daniell, James" <DaniellJ@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to waste bandwidth but seems like there are a fair few people out
there who use their computers to record demos (or better) so thought there
might be someone out there who could help.

I've recently bought the Tascam US-122 interface, mainly as I was getting
frustrated with the poor noise-to-signal of my standard laptop soundcard.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/search/detail/base_pid/240868/
<http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/search/detail/base_pid/240868/> 

I'm only using it for audio, have set up the interface, changed my demo
version of Cakewalk so that it uses the new device for recording...and I get
this horrible, low-volume, static-y interference whenever there's recorded
signal coming through the mic (a plain old SM58 btw).

Any ideas?  I'm using a fairly new laptop, 512GHz, 3.06MB, XP blah blah
It's really a *lot* worse sound quality than through the standard soundcard
- I see reference to noise from the USB power supply but here I only seem to
be getting interference once I start singing into the mic.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, please email off-list


Harp content: I will be using the interface for harp once I get the sucker
to work...

Thanks in advance, and sorry again
James


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