Did i just burned my soundcard?

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I was trying to record some vocals to my PC. First I connected the mic to the POD XTL input but it was giving a lot of noise, so I then I connected the mic directly to my guitar amp input (Kustom Quad 65 FX).

Then I tried connecting the "Speaker Out" ("this will disconnect the internal speaker and allow an external speaker cabinet to be employed, rating 8 ohms) directly to the Lien in input of my PC.


I saw some sparks coming out from the 1/4 to 1/8 adapter I had between the "speaker out" and my PC.

Now it seems that my PC does not recognize any sound card besides the POD XTL.


Did I just burned my sound card??

Do i need to buy a new one?

Where can i find info about sound cards if i need to buy one?


Help will be greatly appreciated...
 
Looks like you lets some of the smoke out of that particular electro piece, and there's precious little to begin with to let be wasting out like that. :o

'Spect that's cause speaker outs' do tens of volts where a line-in is expecting to see about one or so.
 
Not good. You might want to check the speaker out of the POD while you're at it.
 
I checked both the POD and the amp and those are working fine.

It seems that just the audio card is not working.
 
yes you killed your soundcard. Be thankful that thats all that was destroyed, hooking up an amplified speaker output to a line level input is a no-no
 
altitude909 said:
yes you killed your soundcard. Be thankful that thats all that was destroyed, hooking up an amplified speaker output to a line level input is a no-no
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AGREED!!! :)
 
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