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I have static during winamp playback. (music plays, back there's a crackly noise, chitter chitter chitter....)
I have a crappy €15,00 soundcard.
Will spending another €80,00 on a good soundcard fix my problem?
I hate static.
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[Quick Tech Answer] I hate static too. There could be lots of different reasons for hearing static. The obvious ones are:
- make sure your mic playback volume is 0 i.e. it could be that the mic is on and feeding back to your speakers.
- Your volume is too high.
- The winamp equaliser is set to amplify high-frequency sounds too much. Take the treble down a bit - see if that helps.
- The recording of the song is crap - lots of high-frequency noise so use a low-pass filter to get rid of it with a nice sound-editing program.
- You're using the wrong drivers?
- Your sound card is just crap :D in which case a new one might fix the problem. But check the others first.
Probably lots of other possibilities too but can't think of any more now.

[ 01-11-2004, 02:10 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

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Good tips, but to no avail.
I'll see if I can get another, good SC to test it. :(
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Consider testing with another set of speakers, too. They can cause problems as well.

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I've ruled out all those options: tried different speakers, different stereo, PC speakers, etc. It's all the same. I keep getting irri static during playback. In games, there is also some static, but that's a lot less obvious then when listening to music.
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Sounds like you've worked your way back to the sound card.

Has it ever worked well? If it has, you might try unseating it, blowing it clean with a can of compressed air, and reseating it. Could just be dust in there.