The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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[QUOTE=aNTohnEE;46648007]Hey guys, I have a quick Audacity question. For instance, I'm trying to record some audio from my digital piano and whenever I sustain some notes, Audacity seems to turn the low noise to complete silence, when all I want is for the the entire note to be recorded, regardless of how quiet it gets. It sounds really weird when I'm letting a note sustain and it all of a sudden cuts to silence. I'm guessing there's a filter in the program that can be changed to not turn it into silence but I just don't know enough about sound editing to know what option it is. Thanks for any help!
Also here's a picture of the sounds wave.
[IMG]http://oi59.tinypic.com/fwhhtx.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
We need a little more info about your setup. Is this a acoustic piano and its through a mic, or is it a digital one and connected to the line in on your sound card? It looks pretty clean so I assume digital.
Audacity doesn't really do any filtering. Its literally recording the samples the driver is giving it (the volume sliders above are your OS volume sliders). You might not have the recording volume high enough, and once you sustain, it starts dropping off as its perceiving it as near silence. Try bumping up the recording volume higher as high as it will go before it causes clipping in louder sections. Also check that your audio drivers don't have any effects applied on the recording input in the Windows sound settings.
For all we know, the line in on your sound card may be crap too. But I can assure you, this more than likely isn't an Audacity issue.
[QUOTE=Demache;46648311]We need a little more info about your setup. Is this a acoustic piano and its through a mic, or is it a digital one and connected to the line in on your sound card? It looks pretty clean so I assume digital.
Audacity doesn't really do any filtering. Its literally recording the samples your sound card is giving it. You might not have the recording volume high enough, and once you sustain, it starts dropping off as its perceiving it as near silence (digital devices can't interpret very low volumes well). Try bumping up the recording volume higher as high as it will go before it causes clipping in louder sections.
For all we know, the line in on your sound card may be crap too.[/QUOTE]
Yes it's purely digital, I have it plugged into the mic jack of my laptop. But thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it.
[QUOTE=aNTohnEE;46648404]Yes it's purely digital, I have it plugged into the mic jack of my laptop. But thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it.[/QUOTE]
That might explain it too. Mic jacks aren't really intended for this purpose (but it works in a pinch). Mic inputs on laptops aren't always very high quality either.
As a side note, you can set Audacity to record in 1 channel/mono, since odds are, you mic jack is only mono. You're just wasting disk space otherwise.
If you can't get it to work properly, buy an external USB sound card. You'll get much better sound quality and proper stereo line in.
Would anyone have any idea why my PC refuses to connect to the router that's in my room, and insists on connecting to the one fifty feet away instead? I've got the one in my room set up to extend the network, and every other machine on this end of the house sees it except for my desktop. It's really, really annoying.
I plan on getting an SSD soon and use it for my OS and a few games and have my current 1tb drive as storage, so do I need to completely wipe the 1tb drive or is there a way I can just remove the OS from it and keep the rest of the files? I really do not want to install 500gb worth of games again.
So my brother fucked around with my display configurations yesterday, as he was pissed off over Red Alert 2 not working, which caused him to get impulsive and more likely to mess shit up (?)
Now, I've got no clue what he did, but in all of a sudden I've got a display appear that is physically NOT there.
[T]http://upl.kittehcat.org/2014-12-06_09-21-47.png[/T]
Only display 1, 2 and 3 are physically there.
Is there any way to get rid of this display? Every time I reboot my system settings are reverted and those two displays are enabled again. Another annoying thing is that my two displays that I do use will be reverted to the stock clock.
[editline]6th December 2014[/editline]
Also, it seems to be outputting an image from the VGA port on the motherboard output.
if you were to buy a new monitor, what would you pick out of these options? 120/144hz @ 1080p, 60hz @ 1440p or 60hz @ 2160p? or even two 60hz @ 1080p monitors for triple monitor setup?
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46645078]CSGO is another story and I'm afraid it isn't a happy story.[/QUOTE]
Well, i'm currently with 4GB, Intel HD 300, and core i5 2nd ten(2.4Ghz). According to a review for intel HD 4400, and other specs same as what I plan to go for, suggested, that games like CS:Go being pushed to higher settings , and I heard Intel Iris 5100 is about 40-60% better than Intel HD 4400, also, with the upgradable Ram. Why would CS:GO be another story, to go from low/medium, to high ,with a graphics card about twice as good as the one currently have?
[QUOTE=PredGD;46652564]if you were to buy a new monitor, what would you pick out of these options? 120/144hz @ 1080p, 60hz @ 1440p or 60hz @ 2160p? or even two 60hz @ 1080p monitors for triple monitor setup?[/QUOTE]
What games are you playing?
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;46652710]What games are you playing?[/QUOTE]
it really varies, I don't play games for too long before growing tired of them. some games I occasionally come back to are Titanfall, CoD, BF4, Distance, Warframe, Minecraft, Natural Selection 2 and Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. don't play BoI:R that much on my desktop though, it's mostly played on my laptop.
[QUOTE=PredGD;46652826]it really varies, I don't play games for too long before growing tired of them. some games I occasionally come back to are Titanfall, CoD, BF4, Distance, Warframe, Minecraft, Natural Selection 2 and Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. don't play BoI:R that much on my desktop though, it's mostly played on my laptop.[/QUOTE]
Well I have a 144Hz 1080p monitor and it's glorious for games but you have to make sure you have enough GPU power to run games at 144fps to fully take advantage of 144Hz. 1440p is really nice because it gives you a good amount of extra space while not having to have any special ports (DP1.2) and you can get it for cheaper than 4k. And 4k is amazing because you have 4x the screen space of 1080p but game UI scales weird at that resolution but you don't need to use AA at all actually. Also you need to remember than 1080p you can get in 21.5" to 27" screens while 1440p is going to be 27" and 4k is most likely going to be 28" (I wouldn't recommend 24" because everything is tiny enough as it is right now). So depending on what matters most to you then:
If you want to game mostly: 144Hz 1080p
If you want to work and game: 1440p or 1080p x3 (Depends on desk space and how many ports on your GPU)
If you want to work mostly: 4k
Source: I own a 144Hz 1080p Monitor, QNIX 1440p, and an Acer 4k
This is just my opinion though.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;46652955]Well I have a 144Hz 1080p monitor and it's glorious for games but you have to make sure you have enough GPU power to run games at 144fps to fully take advantage of 144Hz. 1440p is really nice because it gives you a good amount of extra space while not having to have any special ports (DP1.2) and you can get it for cheaper than 4k. And 4k is amazing because you have 4x the screen space of 1080p but game UI scales weird at that resolution but you don't need to use AA at all actually. Also you need to remember than 1080p you can get in 21.5" to 27" screens while 1440p is going to be 27" and 4k is most likely going to be 28" (I wouldn't recommend 24" because everything is tiny enough as it is right now). So depending on what matters most to you then:
If you want to game mostly: 144Hz 1080p
If you want to work and game: 1440p or 1080p x3 (Depends on desk space and how many ports on your GPU)
If you want to work mostly: 4k
Source: I own a 144Hz 1080p Monitor, QNIX 1440p, and an Acer 4k
This is just my opinion though.[/QUOTE]
thanks for the informative input! I think I'll settle with a 144Hz screen seeing as I primarily use my PC for basic tasks and games. haven't seen a screen over 60Hz either so would be cool to see. any recommendations for a good 144Hz monitor? I stumbled across the XL2420Z which seems pretty good. saw Linus' video on the XL2420TE and he was impressed by it, and from what I could gather, the XL2420Z is pretty much the same thing, just newer and with a few additions compared to the XL2420TE.
is Nvidia 3D vision anything to be excited about by the way? haven't tried it before, so might be fun to try now that I'll be purchasing a 144Hz display
[QUOTE=PredGD;46653466]thanks for the informative input! I think I'll settle with a 144Hz screen seeing as I primarily use my PC for basic tasks and games. haven't seen a screen over 60Hz either so would be cool to see. any recommendations for a good 144Hz monitor? I stumbled across the XL2420Z which seems pretty good. saw Linus' video on the XL2420TE and he was impressed by it, and from what I could gather, the XL2420Z is pretty much the same thing, just newer and with a few additions compared to the XL2420TE.
is Nvidia 3D vision anything to be excited about by the way? haven't tried it before, so might be fun to try now that I'll be purchasing a 144Hz display[/QUOTE]
ASUS VG248QE
Or the XL2420Z
I can't comment on Nvidia 3D since I've never tired it. It does cut your refresh rate down to 60Hz, just FYI if you didn't know.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46653685]CSGO just needs a decent shader card to work with, after that it's all processor bound.
That laptop processor is basically going to cry and be very sad whilst it probably won't even push 60 fps.
If it does I'll be amazed but I would imagine your pants/lap to be on fire soon.[/QUOTE]
Sorry I'm not much of a big gamer, mostly Gmod and valve stuff. Your going to have to give mea rough idea of settings i can achieve/fps. I was just thinking I could push it too higher setting with decent FPS. I'd have thought I'd break past medium, with good FPS. I'm not looking to play CS:Go max settings, at 60+Fps, just medium/high at a good FPS. I mostly mess around with the mod community severs rather than the competitive, vanilla side of it, so precision aiming and smooth FPS isn't a huge issue, but i'd p play it at the setting would give the best FPS/settings ratio of course.
So I got a GPU from my brother, a EVGA GTX 660 TI SC its had its bios flashed and it wasn't working in my PC with constant driver crashes etc. I did a clean reinstall of Windows and its still giving me problems, in games it will be very stuttery, audio will stutter sometimes as well. I've flashed the bios on the card again so it only draws 1.15v (stock) but I'm still getting the same issues, I also put down the core clock to stock values with the same result. At this point I'm wonder if its my PSU, I've checked the 12v rail and under load it only gives 11.482v at this point I'm thinking its the weak old PSU.
[url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139019]This is my PSU[/url] its only got 40 Amps on the 12v rail are my suspicions on it being the problem true?
If thats the case why does it work fine in his PC?
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46653978]you could have clashing drivers
your pci-e slot is dirty, try it in another slot
your motherboard is being miserable
i mean lets not rule out the psu if you've got a multi meter and you want to hook it up to your PCI-E power cables i'd do it just to make sure it isn't that PSU(even though it should be fine)[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure its drivers, I haven't installed any besides the ones for my GPU and Soundcard off this clean install once.
I only have one PCI-E slot, I'll clean it out and see if that works.
As for the multi meter I'll give it a go if I can find it laying about.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46653786]depending on the map plus amount of players by my guess work you'll get at least 50 regardless of quality setting[/QUOTE]
Sounds great :D Thanks for the information.
[QUOTE=Medevila;46658477]Any reason why 'open hardware monitor' won't report temps on my 2nd card while crossfire isn't being utilized?[/QUOTE]
Just a guess, but when you disable CrossfireX, you're basically deactivating your second graphics card. Your motherboard stops treating it like it's plugged in until you re-enable CFX, therefore it can't read the temperature sensors of something that it thinks isn't there.
So my GPU's fan has started to make little clicking/squeaking noises, it's an old GTX460 afterall. I was wondering if anyone has used any lubricants or oils on their graphics card fan to stop the noise/ or if anyone has run into a similar problem. I was thinking of using sewing machine oil.
Wait, if I get a 1000W power supply, does it mean that it's going to consume 1000W at all times, even if the components are idling?
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;46662186]Wait, if I get a 1000W power supply, does it mean that it's going to consume 1000W at all times, even if the components are idling?[/QUOTE]
Not at all. 1000W is simply the most it can safely provide.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46662223]No.
But why the hell would you want 1kwh of power.[/QUOTE]
970s in SLI.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46662284]A 750W could easily do that.[/QUOTE]
I'm also taking into account degradation. My previous 750W PSU wasn't able to boot-up a 770 after 5 years of use. Plus, I'm probably going to keep upgrading my PC in the coming years.
[editline]7th December 2014[/editline]
Plus I got it for fairly cheap on Black Friday. I prefer overkill instead of just enough.
[editline]7th December 2014[/editline]
Thanks for the concern, though.
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;46662344]I'm also taking into account degradation. My previous 750W PSU wasn't able to boot-up a 770 after 5 years of use. Plus, I'm probably going to keep upgrading my PC in the coming years.
[editline]7th December 2014[/editline]
Plus I got it for fairly cheap on Black Friday. I prefer overkill instead of just enough.
[editline]7th December 2014[/editline]
Thanks for the concern, though.[/QUOTE]
power supplies will either have the rating it came with or not work at all
[editline]8th December 2014[/editline]
1kwh is huge overkill for those. and it will draw more power than a 750w at idle
for reference i run a 4.5 4670k and a 970 overclocked to its limits on a 4 year old 500w psu. the only thing i've done to it is replace the fan
Power supplies do degrade over time, but you're not going to see a 750w not boot up a 770 after only 5 years.
Where can I get a 16:10 laptop used?
What laptop would you recommend?
[QUOTE=Original User;46664779]Where can I get a 16:10 laptop used?
What laptop would you recommend?[/QUOTE]
The only ones I can think of are Macbooks. 16:10 is really uncommon on modern Windows laptops. I won't say they don't exist, but I haven't seen any in a long time.
[QUOTE=Levelog;46664139]Power supplies do degrade over time, but you're not going to see a 750w not boot up a 770 after only 5 years.[/QUOTE]
Aight, thanks for the info but it's too late now.
[editline]7th December 2014[/editline]
The price difference was just 35 bucks anyway.
I'm getting a couple of SSDs for Christmas and I want to install windows on a GPT partition so that I can use fastboot and secureboot later on when I get a video card that supports GOP.
So if I have a UEFI mobo with CSM enabled in the mean time, can I still boot from the GPT disk?
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