Audacity recording choppy

[Fred Schuelzky]

altern wrote:
> Fred Schuelzky(e)k dio:
>> altern wrote:
>>> Fred Schuelzky(e)k dio:
>>>> Hi
>>>> 	After a week and a half I finally have audacity running at least it 
>>>> monitors. The recording is very choppy.
>>>> 	It does record well under win xp,  but I want it to work with kubuntu.
>>>> 	So far I have checked the mechanical stuff, usb cord. All 3 cords I 
>>>> tried worked. Researched the Audacity forum and the Kubuntu forum. Tried 
>>>> it with the rca output into the sound card, that makes a lot of noise 
>>>> and nothing else. I've tried adjusting the preamp gain, I didn't see any 
>>>> change there. In the software preferences under latency I have tried 
>>>> different audio buffer settings.
>>>>
>>>> Here is my setup:
>>>> Amd Semperon  1200le
>>>> 1600 mzh.
>>>> 1 gig ddr2
>>>> Sound card Nvidia realtek ALC662 rev1
>>>> KUBUNTU 7.10
>>>> Numark TTXUSB turntable
>>>> Audacity 1.3.3 d/l from repositories
>>>>
>>> i would try to use another software to record in order to see if the 
>>> problems are coming from audacity or from the system.
>>>
>>> enrike
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for following up my message Enrike
>> 	I'm not sure of any other software that I could try as an alternative, 
>> I will try and remove and reload Audacity from the rpos I might have a 
>> bad copy.  The copy of windows Audacity an earlier version, and it does 
>> work.
> 
> you could try gRecorder, Rezound, Ardour. gRecorder is the simplest I guess
> 
> you are not using Jack to route the audio to Audacity, are you?
> 


Enrike
	Audacity is my first experimentation with Linux audio software. I'll 
search for the titles you mentioned this evening after work.

Many thanks
Fred