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Internal & External soundcards

20 September, 2007 - 14:23 — MartyvG

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes anyway.

I do all my recording work at home using a HP Pavillion Media Center PC, running Vista Home Premium.

It has 1gb RAM, 3.4 g processor, and has onboard audio using Realtek Audio, for sound I'm using Creative 5.1 speakers, I'm also using a Creative Soundblaster External USB soundcard.

For some reason, when I have the speakers plugged into the external soundcard, it will play music fine and sounds great, but when I plug an instrument into the line-in of the soundcard I get nothing at all, even though all the sound settings are correct.

When I plug the speakers into the back of the internal soundcard, and use that soundcard as the default one, I can play my instrument and hear it, but no matter what recording software I seem to use, I can't seem to record a thing.

Can anybody possibly help me with this problem?

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20 September, 2007 - 16:18 — illusivemind
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Well Creative sux big time for Digital Audio Workstations, but regardless, what instrument are you plugging into the card?

Have you made sure that the "line-in" channel is selected in the sound card properties for both Windows and the recording program you're using?
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20 September, 2007 - 17:56 — MartyvG
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Yeah I have checked that mate, was the 1st thing I checked.

This has got me totally stumped

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