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alphatabs · Unread post by **alphatabs** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:26 pm

I am familiar with audio recording software (mainly FLStudio) but not hardware. Here's my deal, I have onboard audio. I want to buy a card such as the Delta 44. This card is capable of input, am I right so far? My question is where will the output of the audio come from? I've looked at a lot of these recording cards and I see no place from output to speakers (5.1, 6.1, ect). The only thing i've seen come close is the Audigy which i've heard is a bad card. Does this mean you would have to have 2 sound cards in order to hear what you record??? Can someone throw me the basics to the whole input/output situation here!?! Thank you! :!:

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:40 pm

er... if youre talkin soundcard then the output is into your cpu and out the headphone jack.... you'll plug ur guitar into the input and then record. thats what i do andit works beautifully.

alphatabs · Unread post by **alphatabs** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:19 pm

yes but do these cards have an output? i have 5.1 surround and on all the typical sound cards you see all sorts of 1/8 inch jacks to plug speakers into. on the cards i've looked at for recording all i see is a huge port on the back that adapts to input jacks. (midi, xlr, 1/4 input, ect) so i'm saying you'd have to have THAT card for input AND a whole other card with output capabilities for your speakers. right? wrong? boy i'm confused! :lol:

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:52 pm

alphatabs wrote:yes but do these cards have an output? i have 5.1 surround and on all the typical sound cards you see all sorts of 1/8 inch jacks to plug speakers into. on the cards i've looked at for recording all i see is a huge port on the back that adapts to input jacks. (midi, xlr, 1/4 input, ect) so i'm saying you'd have to have THAT card for input AND a whole other card with output capabilities for your speakers. right? wrong? boy i'm confused!

the headphone jack is the output. u only use 1 soundcard and it handles in and out

Tranman66 · Unread post by **Tranman66** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:22 pm

no you only one card as a primary sound card of that computer, and you plug and set all your sound through that card.

if you want audio cards, then check these out. Its pretty straight forward. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/search?c=9132

alphatabs · Unread post by **alphatabs** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:58 pm

so a card such as the m-audio delta 44 has support for 5.1 speakers? (front, rear, subwoofer)

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta44-main.html

I can see that the 4 on the left are in's and on the right are out's. but my speaker system has three jacks so they will plug in correctly? If you look at this screen:

http://www.m-audio.com/images/en/connec ... d779px.gif

you can see that the input's are meant for things like mixers or preamps.

Tranman66 · Unread post by **Tranman66** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:18 am

are your speakers for computers? or those regular speakers you use on your tv viewing?

If they are not specific desktop 5.1 speakers, but the ones that use for tvs and such like that, then is there a console that comes with the speakers? then i would suggest connecting the card output to the console which control the speakers... that'd make the best sense.

Tranman66 · Unread post by **Tranman66** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:21 am

PC speakers usually have different jacks, that just go into your stereo output line.

Brock · Unread post by **Brock** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:15 am

Tranman66 wrote:PC speakers usually have different jacks, that just go into your stereo output line.

A 1/8" jack can only carry signals for two speakers. A 5.1 system uses 3 1/8" jacks - one for the front two, one for the back two, and one to split the center channel and subwoofer (depending on the stereo system this is somestimes just the center channel and the subwoofer audio is taken as a certain frequency range from the combination of the three jacks).

MWR · Unread post by **MWR** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:05 am

Pro audio soundcards are designed almost exclusively for stereo output. 5.1 output is common on consumer cards because you're using it only for playback with movies and music that have already been mixed in 5.1.
I would say get two sound cards if 5.1 is that important to you.
There's no such thing as a free lunch basically.

You could get a card that has 8 outputs which would give you enough to mix and listen in 5.1 or even 7.1 but that would be overkill imo.

alphatabs · Unread post by **alphatabs** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:53 am

How about the audigy 4? It has support for surround sound and has nice recording capabilities.

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