On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 11:46 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: > When you use the line-in connection of your sound card, chances are > that you will be able to hear it in the speakers of your computer > already - it seems to be the default mixer setting on most systems.
Now there's the rub - I don't hear anything. I hate to say the dreaded line, but I used both card line-in and front panel line-in under windows. Both line-in and line-in2 show up on the mixer panels, both are turned right up, but nothing comes out. > If you don't fire up the mixer program of your choice (aumix, kmix, > gmix, to name but a few) and fiddle with the settings for line-in. > You'll need the mixer anyway with gramofile, to set a decent > recording level as to avoid clipping (=too hard) and noise (=to > low). > > Also, be aware that most standard PC sound cards don't produce very > high quality recordings. It's probably good enough for most things, > but if you're a very critical listener, don't expect the same level > as from really good HiFi equipment. I actually bought a Turtle > Beach Tahiti just for that purpose (quite cheap these days, as it's > ISA), which is great - very low noise and good Analogue to Digital > convertors, but depending on what you want to accomplish, that > might be overkill... > The Audigy card seems to do a reasonably good job, but thanks for the suggestion. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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