Well, the title says everything. When I record using my mic and then I play the recording, it sounds low pitched! But when I use my laptop’s mic, this doesn’t happens, it sounds normal. This didn’t happened to me before, I even updated ardour and it keeps happening, re installed my audio interface drivers and nothing.
As an extra fact, I changed laptop recently for a new one, it’s a Lenovo loq with windows 11
I’m using a ESI U22XT audio interface and the mic is an ESI cosmik 10.
Please explain me what I have to tho to fix this problem, I’m new in this
I’m not certain, but a pitch shift sounds like your hardware (the A/D converters in your audio interface) is running at a different (lower) sample rate than the one expected by the software.
I don’t know that mic (and the ESI website timed out trying to look at it for me) but if it is plugged into the audio interface via an XLR jack, it can’t be contributing to your issue. OTOH, if the mic is a USB microphone, it could well be the culprit: see say no to USB mics.
The mic is a traditional analog output, phantom powered through an XLR connector.
The model of audio interface mentioned is USB class compliant, so should be OK.
Did you install the Windows driver for the device? I don’t know about Windows 11, but traditionally Windows did not have a class compliant USB audio class 2 driver, so if you use the driver which ships with windows it would force the device into audio class 1 mode, very limited, so the device may not be configured as you expect.
If you loaded the ESI driver that should not be a problem.
THANK YOU, EVERYONE! I checked the sample rate but couldn’t change it through the mic controller (it had the option, but it didn’t change anything). So, I dug into Windows audio settings, found the interface drivers, identified the one that controls the mic channels, and in the advanced options, I was able to change the sample rate to 48kHz.
