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Thread #43860   Message #646274
Posted By: Justa Picker
09-Feb-02 - 09:00 PM
Thread Name: Help w/sound cards, PC recording, etc...
Subject: RE: Help w/sound cards, PC recording, etc...
No Lane. You got a good 'un.
I have the Platinum 5.1 with Live Drive. (Audigy is its successor.) You will love the convenience of the Live Drive. I've transferred all my home recordings to the computer via the Mic/Line 2 input on the Live Drive. You can either record directly to the hard drive with the Mic/Line 2 input (using whatever hard disk recording program you like and any microphone that will accept a 1/4" phono input into the Live Drive) or if you have a stand alone tape deck or digital recording unit, just take the stereo rca outs on the unit, buy a stereo 1/4" Y-jack cable from Radio Shack, (and assuming the recording unit is connected to a receiver), take the headphone out on the receiver (one end of Y-jack) into the Mic/Line 2 input on the Live Drive (with the other end of the Y-jack)...run your hard disk recording software. Do a trial run or two to get your gain levels just right (between adjusting the volume OUT on the recorder and the receiver's output volume) and the gain/sensitivity of the hard disk recording software...and you're in business. (Sounds more complicated than it is. The whole setup takes less than 5 minutes once you've got it down.) Congrats!