you don't "need" a special soundcard...

the card that is built into my motherboard worked for recording mixes, but that thing is quite the hisser. it added loads of noise to my mix.

right now i'm using an emu1212, a zillion times better. it does a great job of preserving the sound quality of my set up, and it's very quiet. the noise floor is about -80db w/unbalanced cables. now the quite passages are actually quiet! actually the noise you do hear in my mixes is actually the vinyl moving along the groove, not soundcard.

before there was this constant hiss, lurking in the shadow of my music. very obvious during quite passages, or when there weren't any pads to overpower the noise. it sucked.

so do you have nay Idea why I don't even get a osund when I connect my mixer to my computer.
I check all volumes and they are not mute.

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Perasma Vs BT - Swing 2 Gravity (Pepa Live Mash-up)
I Trance You!

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Originally posted by Pinokio so do you have nay Idea why I don't even get a osund when I connect my mixer to my computer. I check all volumes and they are not mute.

if you try to record it with for example audacity, it's just silence? if that's the case, then either your mixer, your cable or your sound card line-in is fucked. if not then you've connected it wrong. that's all i can come up with. but normally when you feed something to the computer thru line in you don't hear it on the computer speakers if that's what you're asking. i know i had some option somewhere called something like "loop line in to line out" and if i checked that the sound that would go to the line in would come out of the line out also. if i were you, i'd test the cable, the mixer outs and the line in in your computer with different gear. if everything works then i can't really help.

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maybe you just dont have the line-in input selected?

try sndvol32 /r (windows recording mixer)

im not familiar with audacity, it may have sound configuration inside the application as well, but most windows sound apps default to using whatever the windows mixer has selected. generally, the line input is not default.. usually ends up being the microphone.

Thanks for the reply, After reading I'll try to do eveyrthing again.

so when i get eevrythign connected it should not sound throug mty computer speakers?
it shoudl only sound when my computer it's turned on and Audacity Software it's open.

Do I have to sleect an special option in audacity to set the line in, or it shoudl recognize it just when i open audacity?

Thanks.

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Here are my latest mixes:
Pepa - Pure Bliss (June 2007 Promo)
Pepa - Visual Thoughts (March 2007 Promo)
Pepa - Trippin' Again

Mash-ups:
Perasma Vs BT - Swing 2 Gravity (Pepa Live Mash-up)
I Trance You!

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Originally posted by Pinokio Thanks for the reply, After reading I'll try to do eveyrthing again. so when i get eevrythign connected it should not sound throug mty computer speakers? it shoudl only sound when my computer it's turned on and Audacity Software it's open. Do I have to sleect an special option in audacity to set the line in, or it shoudl recognize it just when i open audacity? Thanks.

it won't come out of your computer speakers if you're computer is turned off. and even if it's turned on and audacity is on, you most likely won't hear it on your computer speakers, that depends on your soundcard most likely. but on all cards i've had the line in audio won't come out from the line out unless you select it to loop the line in to line out. and i dunno where that can be done as it depends on your soundcard and the drivers/programs for it.
and on audacity main window there's a menu from where you can choose what you're recording.

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