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... feedback/interference.

Before you read further, I'm not referring to internal mixing, but externally looping a miniplug cable with audio coming out of the computer, back into it. So I don't think my problem is related to all of the new laptops that have crippled mixing. I could be wrong though.

With my old T41p, I would sometimes record audio coming out of the green out, back into the red in. This worked fine. Now that the T410s has that nuisance PITA combo jack, I can still loop it by getting creative with one of those combo audio splitters. Or since I have the docking station, I can simply use the separated jacks just like how I did with my T41p, to externally loop.

When I try to record an external audio source (like my TV or CD player) with my new T410s, it records fine. So the mic isn't broke. However, when I try to record the T410s' own audio, I get feedback and interference-type sound. I can still barely make out what I recorded but it's jumbled.

Any settings I can play with to make it better? Or is the T410s recording its own audio source, out of the question? Thanks.

I have no idea what you are recording or what program you are using but, Audacity has an option to record whatever is coming out the speakers (I forget the exact setting). That would probably give you better quality than changing it to analogue and back to digital, and it would solve the problem with the interference.

craigmontHunter wrote:I have no idea what you are recording or what program you are using but, Audacity has an option to record whatever is coming out the speakers (I forget the exact setting). That would probably give you better quality than changing it to analogue and back to digital, and it would solve the problem with the interference.

Thanks for your reply. I do not have Audacity so that isn't an option. However, I had actually figured it out earlier, didn't get a chance to post until now. Under Sound, click Recording tab, click the device, click Properties, click Advanced tab, uncheck Enable audio enhancements. This was what was causing the interference/feedback type noise when I tried to record sound coming out of the sound card.