Recorded Sound is Warbled

Sound recorded in X1, through either the line-in or mic, plays back sounding warbled for me.  It is somewhere between static noise and one of those toy megaphones that makes your voice sound like a spring.  The levels are not hitting red while I record.

Playback through the speakers while recording sounds normal, whether through the sound card or the X1 Input Echo.  Recording with Windows Sound Recorder also sounds normal, so it must be Cakewalk.  Also, software synths record and play back just fine.

Realtek HD Audio, ALC892 Codec, on a Gigabyte X58-USB3 MoBo
6 GB of RAM

Let me know what else I can supply?

Please do help, or let me know where to even start.  Thanks.

mike has a good point..ussualy this is a bit depth problem..are you dithering down?..not sure if theres a setting in the aud ini file too..thought i heard someone mention that

The onboard card can run just fine... especially if all you want is one or two in/out connections.

One thing I suspect is the possibility that the specs on the sound device may be a bit inaccurate.

Sometimes we see things like "24bit" specs being made via internal up convert interpolation for recording... and sample rates being provided for via kludges.

If you use the onboard sound at it's actual native settings it can run smooth.

The idea I am suggesting is that one should compare their settings against the sound device's innate specs and see if they are using the device to it's best advantage.

best regards,
mike

Try running Wave Profiler again.

And can you describe warbly again? Is it really slowing and speeding up or is it crackliy distorted etc.?

best,
mike

Ok, I should update the description from warbled to maybe buzzing, or static.  But it only plays when there is audio, not during silence, and the effect is proportional to volume. 

I'm using the "Ext. Speaker" output on a small guitar amp, which asks 8 ohm minimum.  It seems like the line-in on my motherboard has 32 kohm input impedance.  But again, with the same setup, the effect only happens in Cakewalk, not other recording software.

There is also a headphone out on the amp, but it ends up too quiet to pick up anything using wither the line-in or mic jacks on my computer. 


And, a clip (mp3 for size, wav sounds the same):

http://www.mediafire.com/?l0owvfzrxg7qgk0

I had the same problem with my Echo Audio Layla 24 card in Windows 7 x64 while using WDM dirver mode.  The problem went away when I switched to ASIO mode.
Sergio

I hear these things:  The guitar sounds muffled and distant - a result of impedance mis-match using line-in.  A cheap (but real) sound card will fix this.

The static-y sound sounds like driver/irq to me. Switching to ASIO drivers may help.  Failing that, a real card + ASIO  drivers. Disconnect your external cabling and record a bit to confirm that the static isn't being introduced externally.  It's too irregular to be a motor but you might want to look around for anything that might generate interference.