Associate
- Joined
- 21 Sep 2006
- Posts
- 1,016
Hello all. Been having an issue when trying to use a USB audio interface on a cheap PC that was bought over xmas.
The PC is using an Asrock motherboard, it's 1150 and fairly basic (B85 rings a bell - I will check).
Anyway I used to get little bits of electrical interference that you could hear through the speakers. Nothing much, put it mostly down to cheap speakers. Then I bought a USB audio interface for recording some mic/guitar work. I've used various ones before, particularly the Focusrite's and Presonus boxes. Never had any issues. This time I bought a Steinberg UR22 MkII - seemed a nice unit, works great on iPad pro, but when plugged into the PC it makes the most awful distorted crackly sounds when the guitar is played. Sounds terrible (the crackling - not commenting on the guitar playing
)
Lots of investigations later, including buying another audio interface which behaves just as badly, and the issue seems to be with the motherboard/USB ports. Set everything up with my laptop yesterday and it worked perfectly, same as with my iPad, just with this PC it's not great.
I installed the latest Intel INF in the hope of improving the USB drivers (Win10 64), still the same. Also I played around with USB compatibility in the BIOS, but again no real change.
I can get the crackles and distortion reduced by massively upping the ASIO buffer size, but it really shouldn't need that, and upping it introduces massive latency and instability.
So before I look at changing to a decent motherboard, is there anything I've missed?
Cheers
The PC is using an Asrock motherboard, it's 1150 and fairly basic (B85 rings a bell - I will check).
Anyway I used to get little bits of electrical interference that you could hear through the speakers. Nothing much, put it mostly down to cheap speakers. Then I bought a USB audio interface for recording some mic/guitar work. I've used various ones before, particularly the Focusrite's and Presonus boxes. Never had any issues. This time I bought a Steinberg UR22 MkII - seemed a nice unit, works great on iPad pro, but when plugged into the PC it makes the most awful distorted crackly sounds when the guitar is played. Sounds terrible (the crackling - not commenting on the guitar playing
)Lots of investigations later, including buying another audio interface which behaves just as badly, and the issue seems to be with the motherboard/USB ports. Set everything up with my laptop yesterday and it worked perfectly, same as with my iPad, just with this PC it's not great.
I installed the latest Intel INF in the hope of improving the USB drivers (Win10 64), still the same. Also I played around with USB compatibility in the BIOS, but again no real change.
I can get the crackles and distortion reduced by massively upping the ASIO buffer size, but it really shouldn't need that, and upping it introduces massive latency and instability.
So before I look at changing to a decent motherboard, is there anything I've missed?
Cheers
