- Joined
- Dec 1, 2007
- Location
- Near Toronto Canada
Improve the sound you already have- even if its crummy onboard (but please get a real sound card)
>If you have a discrete soundcard, allocate it the earliest interrupt priority possible. Check your motherboard manual- some motherboards answer an IRQ6 before an IRQ3, check your tables.
>Put your soundcard in as high up a PCI slot as possible, this tends to increase its priority also
>Use FOOBAR2000 to play your music via either KS or ASIO (download program/plugins @ their site very easy) and use whichever your system supports with as low a latency as you can achieve without getting pops or skips (100ms is ideal if you can manage it)
>CTRL ALT DEL and assign FOOBAR "HIGH" process priority while playback is stopped.
>Set FOOBAR to either 16 or 32 bit, ideally 32 if your system supports it @44100Hz (all this is in "OUTPUT" menu) also set you soundcard to 44100Hz or a multiple thereof. Trying to send a 44100 signal through a 48000/96000 etc filter will= crappy sound.
This will improve your fidelity substantially- but remember that if you are multitasking you will be prone to buffer overruns and skips.
>If you have a discrete soundcard, allocate it the earliest interrupt priority possible. Check your motherboard manual- some motherboards answer an IRQ6 before an IRQ3, check your tables.
>Put your soundcard in as high up a PCI slot as possible, this tends to increase its priority also
>Use FOOBAR2000 to play your music via either KS or ASIO (download program/plugins @ their site very easy) and use whichever your system supports with as low a latency as you can achieve without getting pops or skips (100ms is ideal if you can manage it)
>CTRL ALT DEL and assign FOOBAR "HIGH" process priority while playback is stopped.
>Set FOOBAR to either 16 or 32 bit, ideally 32 if your system supports it @44100Hz (all this is in "OUTPUT" menu) also set you soundcard to 44100Hz or a multiple thereof. Trying to send a 44100 signal through a 48000/96000 etc filter will= crappy sound.
This will improve your fidelity substantially- but remember that if you are multitasking you will be prone to buffer overruns and skips.
