Instrument silent in headphones

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My computer used to work fine for recording but then it blew up. After putting a new one together (well, my buddy put it together) and reinstalling everything, now when you want to record, you can hear the tracks already laid down but not what you are playing. Even when recording it records your instrument fine, and you hear the other instruments, but can't hear your instrument as you are playing it.

If anyone has an idea what might be wrong, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
 
What's your setup? Where are your headphones plugged in? More info please :)
 
Its a Dell Dimension desktop w/ a Soundblaster Live 5.1 soundcard and Magix Music Studio software. I've looked around in control panel, the soundcard settings and the music software but haven't been able to figure anything out.

And it doesn't play out anything, headphones or speakers. Like I said, you can record the stuff fine, and the headphones will play the music that's already recorded, but the stuff you want to lay down is inaudible until the take is finished and you play it back.
 
Do you have a monitoring button on your software?

Generally if your not monitoring through a mixer the software has a monitoring button that toggles your sound card to allow you to hear the incoming signal.

Only thing I ever experienced with monitoring through the soundcard was latency issues.

I chose to play with it turned off because everything I played was like 30 milliseconds delayed.
 
You sure you have your sound settings setup correctly? In the Windows volume mixer (bottom right corner of the screen):

Double-click the little icon
Un-mute Line In
Go to Options -> Properties -> Recording
Select Line In as your recording device
 
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