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Subject: [WriteLog] Soundboards
From: n4gi@tampabay.rr.com (Blake Meinecke)
Date: Wed Jul 23 06:47:20 2003
google gave me this

http://www.qsl.net/wa9als/sound_results.htm

and 179 other hits in 0.2 seconds...

73,
Blake N4GI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georgens, Tom" <tgeorgen@lsil.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:33 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Soundboards


> Hello all -
>
> I need to replace my computer at my station in Barbados and I have a
> soundboard question.
>
> I have used Writelog to record some of my contest activity (the comments
on
> the other reflector notwithstanding) and I had been taking advantage of a
> feature on the soundboard that does not seem universally available.  I
> wanted to record the sent CW and the received audio without turning on the
> sidetone.  My solution was to take the sidetone output from the Multikeyer
> and put it in the "line in" on the sound board.  I would put a Y connector
> into my headphone line and run a wire to "mic in" on the sound board.  The
> soundboard would mix the channels and record them both at once.
>
> It turns out that recording two channels at once is not a feature of every
> soundboard.  My T600 laptop works fine, my newer A20 laptop does not,  my
> Ensoniq Soundboard does not, my SoundBlaster live does not, and my Cyrix
> M300 based mother board in 8P works great.  If there is any trend, the
older
> sound boards are the ones that seem to work.
>
> It is almost impossible to tell from the boxes or the websites whether
this
> function works and I don't want to buy one of each until I find one that
> works.
>
> My question is whether anybody out there knows of a soundboard that meets
> this criteria?  It is also possible that I am missing a setting somewhere
> but I doubt it.
>
> The way to tell if the function exits is to bring up the Volume control
> menu.  (Start -> Programs -> Entertainment -> Volume control).  Then click
> on Options -> Properties -> Recording and hit OK.  If you can select Line
in
> and Microphone at once, the board probable works.  If selecting one mutes
> the other, it does not.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or advice
>
> 73, Tom W2SC 8P1A
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