Laptop Q (1 Viewer)

[Speed Racer]

Yo Electronic dudes! Does yer laptop make a hissing noise when playing audio really loud. I'm just using an analog lead from the headphone socket (its the only audio output on the thing), what the best way to output audio on a laptop? The soundcard may also be run of the mill. Its a 2 years old Toshiba. Any Advice? Cheers.

Keep on blippin!

 

[Shnake]

does it go "zjerrrrr" when you move the mouse?

 

[guy of the tiger]

forget the built in sound and get a usb auido interface like:

this
http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDOTRANSIT

or this
http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDODUO

Yo Electronic dudes! Does yer laptop make a hissing noise when playing audio really loud. I'm just using an analog lead from the headphone socket (its the only audio output on the thing), what the best way to output audio on a laptop? The soundcard may also be run of the mill. Its a 2 years old Toshiba. Any Advice? Cheers.

Keep on blippin!

 

[Shnake]

FancyGoods, you're linkage is good.

Are these effectively external sound cards? Or are they little pre-amps?

tell me more, I'm stupid with computers

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

why don't you learn how to play a real instrument like the electric guitar, a-holes?

andrew

 

[Alex]

Yo Electronic dudes! Does yer laptop make a hissing noise when playing audio really loud. I'm just using an analog lead from the headphone socket (its the only audio output on the thing), what the best way to output audio on a laptop? The soundcard may also be run of the mill. Its a 2 years old Toshiba. Any Advice? Cheers.

Keep on blippin!

What Lizzie says it's true, a USB card is the way to go. However, I used to get the output out of the headphone socket of my PC to play Morello's backing tracks and it was noiseless

 

[thegoone]

or the pink picolo

 

[Speed Racer]

forget the built in sound and get a usb auido interface like:

this
http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDOTRANSIT

or this
http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDODUO

Deadly! Thanks, thats all I needed to know. I owe you a hug or a wink.

 

[herv]

Deadly! Thanks, thats all I needed to know. I owe you a hug or a wink.

if you go to maplin you can get a tiny little usb output (one minijack line out and one digital out) for about 30 europs.

very handy.

 

[Shnake]

what's the difference from just going through the minijack out of the computer?

 

[SpeedRacer]

what's the difference from just going through the minijack out of the computer?

I'll go through your minijack! cunt!

 

[Speed Racer]

if you go to maplin you can get a tiny little usb output (one minijack line out and one digital out) for about 30 europs.

very handy.

Where's Maplin Herv? is it a place or a website?

 

[herv]

what's the difference from just going through the minijack out of the computer?

most soundcards in laptops aren't shielded and as a result you'll pick up every oul noise from the machinery inside. i recently got a new laptop (better model than the last one) but the soundcard seems to have been positioned directly over the cd drive. as a result, every time you put a cd in, you get an insane vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooom over the line out as the drive reads the cd.

nasty. the usb out completely sorted it though, as it routes the audio away from all the noise.

 

[herv]

Where's Maplin Herv? is it a place or a website?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/

theres one near jervis st dude

 

[Shnake]

most soundcards in laptops aren't shielded and as a result you'll pick up every oul noise from the machinery inside. i recently got a new laptop (better model than the last one) but the soundcard seems to have been positioned directly over the cd drive. as a result, every time you put a cd in, you get an insane vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooom over the line out as the drive reads the cd.

nasty. the usb out completely sorted it though, as it routes the audio away from all the noise.

that's deadly, because I've been having exactly that problem

herv you rule!

fake speedracer, you suck

 

[herv]

just doin mah job mam

 

[guy of the tiger]

yep they are sound cards. plug in and out of usb port when you want to use it.
You can get all sorst of things: preamps, XLR inputs if you want. (USB ports provide power)

very portable. The only complaint people seem to have is higher latency compared to onboard soundcards. Put if your just feeding stuff in and out of it that's not a problem.

FancyGoods, you're linkage is good.

Are these effectively external sound cards? Or are they little pre-amps?

tell me more, I'm stupid with computers

 

[guy of the tiger]

no hugging.

winking only via mirror. no eye contact.

Deadly! Thanks, thats all I needed to know. I owe you a hug or a wink.

 

[guy of the tiger]

As in the original post: you might get unwanted noise.Also onboard laptop audio is not always that good. Plus you can get more options with a proper soundcard( diff. samplig rates, different connectors etc)
also you can plug your little portable soundcard into any pc (after windows 95) or mac and it will work. (you might need to install the drivers once though)

what's the difference from just going through the minijack out of the computer?

 

[thegoone]

no hugging.

winking only via mirror. no eye contact.

hilarious
you diva