Total recording numpty here - don't know what I'm doing, don't understand it, just trying to get my head around it.
I've done a few bits in Reaper before, and once I got my interface to work (cheapo Alesis iO2) it all worked as expected. Then not had chance to touch it for months.
Working on a few things on holiday, but with essentially the same kit as normal, and when recording it all sounds fine. Quality of the playback to headphones when recording additional tracks is fine (monitoring via headphones attached to the Alesis, USB feed from the laptop).
Recorded a simple project with three tracks (guitar, vocal, bit of lead). Listened back on headphones, OK. Unplugged headphones and Alesis, set laptop back to using internal audio for output and … ARGH! Hiss city on the lead in, and then the actual track output is muffled and muted, and everything's buried under a layer off hissy rubbish.
I've tweaked everything I can find, and can't make it go away, and the basic wav files have it when played through other tools, so I'm guessing it's something that's snafu'd at the input stage, even though it sounded OK on the 'phones.
Can anyone spot what I've screwed up in my ignorance?
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