Capture card hissing

[Hunter1428]

Hi all,

 

I recently just got my first capture card, ZasLuke Game Capture Card. Yes it's a cheap Chinese make which is produced under a million names... ignore that.

 

My problem is, I'm hearing a hissing sound from the incoming audio on the PC. (Tried on 2 PC's, same issue)

• If I plug my headset into the capture card directly I hear no hiss (still hissing on pc though).
• If I plug something into the microphone port on the capture card, it halves the hissing sound instantly, but is still there on the pc.
• If I have the microphone plugged into the capture card and talk, during that time I talk the hiss is completely gone but slowly ramps back up.
• If I mute the capture card on the PC, of course the hissing stops completely but I cannot hear the game.

I understand it is a super cheap capture card, but I cannot find anyone saying they have had this issue with this card or any card to that matter!?

 

Any ideas?

[Xander Cousins]

It probably just the general issue of cheap devices. You could possibly remove the hiss with editing software / sound software 

[Hunter1428]

1 minute ago, Xander Cousins said:

It probably just the general issue of cheap devices. You could possibly remove the hiss with editing software / sound software 

Yeah.... unfortunately that's exactly what I thought. I was sorta hoping I was just missing the "hidden tick box" to fix all problems.

 

I did try with some setting to remove the hiss, but as it's so loud I have to removed a lot of the audio. Then everything sounds like jelly 

Thanks for the quick response!

[Xander Cousins]

1 minute ago, Hunter1428 said:

Yeah.... unfortunately that's exactly what I thought. I was sorta hoping I was just missing the "hidden tick box" to fix all problems.

 

I did try with some setting to remove the hiss, but as it's so loud I have to removed a lot of the audio. Then everything sounds like jelly 

Thanks for the quick response!

umm I dont work heavily with sound so possibly someone who knows sounds isolation and all can get the frequency of the Hiss and isolate it which would remove it without ruining the rest of the audio as harshly 

[lordsmurf]

Hiss is often caused by feedback along the path, sometimes even inside the computer itself. Depending on the type of hiss, and sources, this could be anything from RF to something present on the source (just never noticed before).

 

Microphone ports are notoriously terrible.