PC Question

it can. what is the audio source?

>>56315206
Not really, its your house electrical wiring grounded?
How is your setup? Draw a diagram

Well to elaborate more, it's the microphone giving me a hissing noise when I do recordings. If I disable the mic, or mute it, nothing comes through. So I was thinking it could probably be interference with my on board sound card.

>>56315206
You can remove the hissing with software.

Get an external sound card that connects to the PC over a digital medium like optical or USB.

Gonna borrow this thread. I don't have hissing issue but it seems like there's no sub-bass on my current onboard sound card. Is there a way to improve sound quality without buying a whole external DAC/AMP?

Sound cards are a meme, the hissing noise is causes by all the shit going on inside your PC, sound card still in inside the PC. Just get an external DAC which will be away from your PC.

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tbqh family if you want to do recording you should really invest in an external audio interface.

>>56315569
Do this. Or start to investigate your current noise problems. LIkely what you're going will do the same with a sound card. If you're using a mic, use one that's usb. The nature of your question suggests that you should get something that's oriented pretty closely to what you want to do.

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>>56315505

>>56315728
install 18" subwoofer

>>56315771
>people actually believe this
Shitty USB controller will hiss like shit too.

If you system isn't grounded it will hiss, I was confused for the longest time as to why my laptop would hum sometimes.

>>56315206
Generally, yes, sound cards don't have the problems of limited space motherboard designs with dirty power or crosstalk, they have their own power filters and generally higher quality DACs.
If you are going for an external one, go for the really high end, cheap USB ones are no better then onboard, better yet if it has its own controller board.

There's nothing much you can do about fixing on board audio if you already have a wired ground and good PSU, mostly a good motherboard or USB DAC will have sufficient quality audio for the average user.

>>56319033
I remember touching the shielding on the USB port of my laptop and the hiss would go away, kek.

When it comes down to it depends on what you want to do and how many channels you want best
Recommended to get an external soundcard although you can get internal ones that have shielding
from electronic interference and also can depend on what mics you run as cheap mics sound like shit but you can run software to clean them up

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>>56315206
Yes, absolutely yes. Get a simple audio card like Scarlett Solo which is perfect for this kind of thing
Do you have active soeakers or passive + amp?
Or really memey aux speakers?

>>56315206
all you need

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/MUSE-AUDIO-X5-MINI-HIFI-USB-DAC-PCM2704-SOUND-CARD-BOARD-BLACK-COLOR/1500794683.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_7,searchweb201602_3_10057_10056_10065_10055_10054_10059_10058_10017_107_10060_10061_10052_414_10062_10053_10050_10051,searchweb201603_2&btsid=3212dfdf-3f0b-4adf-8d42-d870d6f7ab76

>>56319602
Topkek, no, even 2003's onboard is better.