Audio in sync, but sound crappy...please help!

[faylc]

Like many other newbies, I started converting some of my old VHS-C and DV tapes on DVDs by doing pass through, but I have this small problem with audio, and I've done some searching but I still can't find the answer. The audio sounds like if you turn up the volume on some crappy speakers. Whenever there's a human voice, the last word of a sentence tend to have a higher pitch than the rest of sentence. I don't know if it's the RCA cable (came with the camcorder), the encoding part (CBR in TMPGEnc 2.5), audio capture (by Ulead VS 8.0), my crappy sound card (Realtek) or the setting on my camcorder (12 bit, or 32 htz.)

VCR: Sylvania 4-heard
DV Camcorder: JVC GRD-200
Capture: Ulead VS 8.0
Encoding: TMPGEnc 2.5 Plus
Authoring: TMPGEnc DVD author

I've tried "transferring" some DVs directly from the camcorder to the PC via firewire (no pass through), but it sounds the same.

Thanks in advance with any feedback!

[guns1inger]

Could be clipping, if the input levels are too high. I'm also not sure why you are recording at 12bit, rather than 16. This may have an impact as the quality will be lower.

I couldn't quite work out what you are saying your last sentence though.
Are you saying that you have the same problem when you transfer DV footage recorded on the camera, or you don't have the problem with DV footage recorded with the camera.

If you have the same problem with DV footage recorded on the camera, I'd suspect the audio on the camera being the problem, and have someone look at it.

[faylc]

guns1ing, thanks for the quick reply.

In the last sentence of my last post, I was trying to say that the DV footage sounds fine when it's being played back on the camcorder (still the original DV tape.) After the footage is transferred (not sure what word I should use in my last post) to the PC via firewire (DV AVI), it sounds fine too. The next step is encoding, and then authoring onto a DVD-R. Then I watch it on my PC or my Panasonic DVD player, it sounds crappy on either device. So I'd suspect the last step is the culprit.

Also, I just bought the JVC GRD-200, and it doesn't seem to offer the 16-bit audio option.

Any ideas? Thanks.