08/31/03 Hello Ronald,
I don't know about pre-amps. Perhaps that will help. But first, before you buy more hardware, have you ever used the Line-In on the Soyo Dragon Plus MB before? Are you absolutely positive that the Line-In is working? Since the mixers didn't find it, it may be a faulty Line-In or perhaps there is something in the BIOS that needs to be enabled to get the Line-In working properly? This is the first thing I would check out. Secondly, does your friend have an internal slot sound card that you can borrow? If everything works okay with his sound card and your Linux software, then there is faulty hardware on the motherboard. You might want to buy your own sound card and record with it. The recording abilities of sound cards vary from cheap to professional studio level. The price of these sound cards will vary accordingly. So if you have to buy a sound card, first determine what quality of recording you'll be able to make. You won't be able to do better than the cassette deck's specs. So a professional studio level card won't do any better than a Sound Blaster card if the cassette deck has very poor specs. The same is true for recording the vinyl and the turntable's specs. No point in buying a $500 recording card if the specs are only as good as a $50 Sound Blaster or other low end sound card. Hope This Helps, Stephen. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 12:51 AM Subject: [newbie] Line-in problems? > Okay, I've now got a small cassette deck with true line out, and a cable with > R/L RCA jacks on one end, and a 1/8th inch mini-jack (2 bands) on the other. > I plug the mini-jack into the line-in on my Soyo Dragon Plus MB and get... > > Nothing.
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