APPLIED ENGINEERING Sonic Blaster - Manual (Page 57)

Distorted Sound
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Once again, is the SB’s connector plate screwed onto the
back panel? Is the other end securely connected to the
card? If not, the Sonic Blaster is not grounding properly.
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Is the E-I/O cable connected to both the Sonic Blaster and
the motherboard?
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Check your speaker wires. Are all the connections
secure? Are bare wires from the left and right wires or
the power and ground touching?
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Are you clipping the sound? If the peaks of your sound
waves are flattened against the top and/or bottom of the
sound graph window (see below), you’re clipping. This
results in distorted sound. Turn down your record
level. Try using Auto Gain to set the record levels for
you.
An example of clipped sound
Sonic Blaster’s Error Messages
C a n n o t S e t R e c o r d t o P l a y b a c k
The maximum Playback Sample Rate is higher than the
maximum Record Sample Rate so the record cannot always be
set equal to the playback rate. For example, if your Playback
Sample Rate is set to 43382, the Record Sample Rate cannot
match that setting.
M a x i m u m n u m b e r o f w i n d o w s o p e n e d
You’ll get this message when you have eight windows open
and you try to open another with the Open, New, or Record
commands. Close a few windows before proceeding.
M a x i m u m o f 2 C h a n n e l s S u p p o r t e d
This error message appears when you try to open an AIFF
channel that has been recorded with more than two channels.
You won’t be able to open the file.
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