ADVC 100 Question - audio clipping - volume too high

[robrosen]

Does anyone on this forum know how to deal with the problem of clipping, i.e. crackling in the audio because the volume being fed to the ADVC-100 from the VCR is too high? I don't think there's a way to set the volume of the analog audio being converted to DV on the ADVC-100.

[skateni]

Does anyone on this forum know how to deal with the problem of clipping, i.e. crackling in the audio because the volume being fed to the ADVC-100 from the VCR is too high? I don't think there's a way to set the volume of the analog audio being converted to DV on the ADVC-100.

Can't you lower the VCR out volume ??

[robrosen]

Can't you lower the VCR out volume ??

I can't - I'm feeding the VCR audio directly to the ADVC-100. I'm going to do this kludge tonight - feed the VCR audio into my Line In jack, and feed the line out/speaker jack to my ADVC-100 (I have a Soundblaster Live card - so hopefully this will keep the load on the CPU relatively low). This will enable me to lower the audio output via Windows (by reducing the Line In and Volume control settings). Will provide an update tomorrow on the results...

[rossinator]

I had a similar problem a last week. I found when I manually adjusted the tracking on the VCR while playing the tape, the crackling went away, but the picture quality suffered. What I had to do was capture just the video then I adjusted the tracking to remove the crackling sound and captured the audio. Later, I combined them in my DVD authoring program to make the DVD.

Hope this helps,

Jim

[maff1965]

Hi robrosen
Not sure if this will help, but i am wondering if it would be possible to feed the audio out cables from your VCR to a mixer or some kind, then ouput the cables from the mixer into the canopus, that way you have control of the ouput volume from your mixer, i am just guessing mind.

Maff

[robrosen]

The solution I posed earlier worked. This consisted of (1) feeding the audio from the VCR to my sound card's Line In jack, and then (2) feeding the audio from my sound card's Speaker/Line Out jack to my ADVC-100, which then transmitted audio to my capture program via my Firewire Card. I set the Line In and the Speaker volumes at 5 notches from the bottom (using the speaker icon at the bottom right corner of the Windows icon tray). The upshot is that I used my PC's sound card as a mixer, and it worked surprisingly well. Thanks to all who replied.