What can I do to remove sound card noise?

Here's the deal. I have a stepnote with a realtech sound card. When I record to a virtual studio I get this digital noise along with the recorded data. It sounds like a strong chorus/delay effect, making guitar tracks sound more like a synth. I get the same kind of noise when I record to a tapedeck from the headphone out. I thought that it would be filtered out when the audio tracks were burned to a CD, but it wasn't. I know the noise is digital artifacts. What I don't know is if it is hardware related or software related. I also don't know if it would be a problem with the sound card or the or if it's because I'm only running 256MB RAM, it it turns out to be hardware related. If not enough RAM, would a USB audio interface make any difference? Also, what does a computer use for A/D and D/A conversion? That information seems to be missing from the specs on every computer I've looked at. Please note I've used Audacity and Kristal and got the same results with both.

What can I do to remove sound card noise?
i dont know alot about music recording, but i know alot about computers, i can tell you that having 256mb memory should'nt be a problem unless the recording program you are using require more, my guess is your problem is either caused by not a very good sound card or problem with settings, try to go the master sound settings, and set the microphone volume so its not all the way up, sometimes that helps. also if you want a good sound card for this kind of stuff i recommend creative sound card, i know that they have one's special for this stuff


here's is a link to one of the cards for laptop


http://www.creative.com/products/product...
Reply:Found out it's a lousy sound card. I a USB/Audio interface from Behringer, downloaded the CODEC, problem solved. Report Abuse

Reply:While i cannot answer most of your questions as I am not really familiar with sound recording/synthesizing on computers. I can definitely tell you in my experience that 256mb of ram is an extremely low amount to be running any applications with. the minimum recommended for a computer in this age is 1gb. And even people with older (3 or 4) years usually have at least 512mb of ram. Just go to your electronics store and pick up additional memory. Additional if the RAM is the issue, a USB audio interface would make no difference. The two have nothing to do with each other. If there is not enough ram on your computer, that means the computer does not have enough memory free to run the applications on your computer. Adding another usb device will simply add to your issues (if you don't increase the ram) because it's forcing your computer to have to recognize and process information to and from another device.
Reply:Maybe you have some audio effects set up on your sound card. If you can't figure out how to change it you could try uninstalling and reinstalling the software.