Creative cards have that EAX or some such enhanced equalizer. Can you turn it off? You know this, but you normally do not want to "color" your recordings; only invoke an EQ on the final end of playback. Maybe the signal path goes through the EAX on recording.

Tell me about Goldwave. Is that the software you use to make the MP3s, in which you set the MP3 sample rate? Or are you using something else? [I use Adobe Audition, but SoundForge is equivalent; both are pro level and very powerful.]


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