Audio quality issue w/ live 16kbps mic in or line in

[Johnbouy]

Question:
Improving/ manipulating the sound quality for line-in and/or mic input broadcast.


Environment:
This question may possibly be better suited in the Winamp threads- I just do not know that answer. It directly pertains to broadcasting a live AM radio station via shoutcast DSP 1.8.0 at 16 kbps (11,025 khz) on a Win98 SE over a 56K dial-up connection to my shoutcast server, vers 1.9.4 on W2K Advanced Server Pro. My upload here on the server is >= 256 kbps. (Testing purposes)

I am trying to manipulate the sound quality and know too little about audio techno-how. The sound source is a radio station (locally within the studio itself) feeding the soundcard either line in or mic in from the soundboard in the studio. It is then sent to my shoutcast server here and of course, broadcasted...

We noticed on most occasions that the sound has an overbearing buzz, or the sound of a 'bumblebee in a paper bag' quality to it. It has, however, sounded terrific in other instances using that same bitrate and frequency. I know it can deliver good quality with the right adjustments.

How can I or what do i need to be able to adjust the quality to drop off the overbearing peaks and such. I have read the forums and have seen the 'normalizer' plugins but did not know if they worked with line-in audios. The only sound adjustments that we have are the windows sound 'record control' and 'volume control', which are set to almost zero.

Thanks in advance and appreciate the time


WLMA Radio - site mentioned above

Long-winded

John

[egphacess]

I want to know the same thing

I also want to shappen up the sound quality, I got a sample from a friend and heard how it was, a real buzz so to say, but there wasent anything else so.