[WriteLog] Sound Card Spec Nomenclature?

[bemeier]

I may be way out in left field here, coming in late to the thread, but have you run the WriteLog Soundboard test program on the downloads page?   I use that program to tell me if the soundcard is going to work or not.  I have NEVER had an onboard soundboard work better than the $29.00 Creative Sound Blasters.  (I am also running XP).
 
73,
Bruce - N1LN
(aka: NC4KW)
 


--- On Tue, 1/24/12, K6UFO Mark Aaker <k6ufo at arrl.net> wrote:


From: K6UFO Mark Aaker <k6ufo at arrl.net>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Sound Card Spec Nomenclature?
To: "writelog at contesting.com" <writelog at contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 1:53 PM


Rick, I'm no expert, but this problem of combining Mic and Line input 

simultaneously has been affecting people since Vista, and now on Windows 7.

There is a Writelog note about this at:
<http://writelog.com/downloads/sound-board-check>

Microsoft has this to say:

<http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/32d12439-928e-4bbc-9723-5ae8a51f156d/>

Some discussion about this on an Audio Forum:
<http://www.audioforums.com/forums/showthread.php?28557-Mixing-Line-In-and-Mic-Windows-7>

I had heard it can be overcome by using an external mixer, or TWO sound 

cards, or by using Virtual Audio Cable to combine the sources digitally, 

(or by switching to Linux). Also, your particular sound card may support this 

feature in its hardware and own specific driver and control panels, even if 

the standard Windows 7 controls can't do it.

Mark Aaker K6UFO
k6ufo at arrl.net
(408)857-4329  



> To: Writelog user group <writelog at contesting.com> 
> Subject: [WriteLog] Sound Card Spec Nomenclature? 
> From: Rick Tavan N6XI <rtavan at gmail.com> 
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:30:43 -0800 
> 
> Is there any way to tell from the published specifications of a sound card
> (or a computer that contains a built-in sound card) whether the card is
> capable of looping input mic audio through to its line output? What named
> "feature" would I be looking for?
> 
> Motivation for question: I'm currently having trouble getting mic audio
> through either the internal card in my T61p or an external Griffin iMic 

> card. With either one, I can record messages to WL and play them back to my
> rig but I can't use the mic in real time without disconnecting it from the
> sound card and connecting it directly to the rig. This used to work for me
> but that may have been with a predecessor computer.
> 
> Thanks,
> /R
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