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When doing a loopback the input waveform looks nothing like the output. Whats going on?

April 26, 2017doing going input looks loopback output waveform

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When doing a loopback the input waveform looks nothing like the output. Whats going on?

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The input to your sound card is probably being overloaded and clipping high voltages. This will make a sine wave look like a deformed square wave. This is not good for your sound card. Lower the loudness of the sound that you are inputting to the card.