Monitoring During Recording

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Please excuse the stupidity of this... but how do I monitor stuff while I'm recording? I have an Audiophile card, and playback is no problem... I can even use my motherboard's sound for playback, but I can't figure out how to monitor while recording.
Pre-emptively... yes, I am an idiot. Latency? I hope there is none, but I currently have nothing-ency.
Please help.
CRINZ
 
I think I just answered this elsewhere but what the heck.

You need to get yourself a cheap external mixer with a headphone jack. Someone on another thread mentioned a $40 Radio Shack solution, I use a Behringer $60 mixer.
 
OK, I re-read your thread. If you are talking about how to do this from your software then I would need to know what software you are using.
 
But I tried putting it into my stereo. A mixer should do the same thing, shouldn't it? The RCA outs going into my stereo get nothing. The stereo plays back fine. Only playback, though. I'm doing something wrong.
CRINZ
 
Can you hear anything that you have recorded? Make sure you have the card selected as the playback device. You should be able to hear the recorded channel by default.
 
TEX:
Always can hear on playback. Can choose between AudioPhile or CrystalFusion on playback. But so far, never during recording.
Tex, I gotta give you a big THANKS for yer help so far. Good to have someone like you around here.
CRINZ
 
Are you recording multi track mode? Make sure you have the track you are recording to assigned to an output and that it is not muted. Those are the simple things to check first. Sorry if you already know that.
 
Nope... not multi-track mode. I suspect that there's something very basic, something very simple, that I'm doing wrong.
Look, I'm gonna try to work it out over the next day or so. If it's still a problem, I'll post again. What a HEADACHE!
Thanks,
CRINZ
 
Go to your delta mixer panel and make sure you have nothing muted such as an input channel.
 
All Problems Solved

I finally got everything working great. The Delta mixer panel was indeed where all the trouble was. Mute was only the beginning. All the level controls needed adjusting, also.
Working in this digital environment has been SO intimidating to me. I come from the time when you'd buy your own splicing block, and tape it to the 'ole MX 50-50, cuz you knew you'd wear out the one on the machine in no time. I did get into digital, but only on professional machines in a studio, and that was several years ago.
BTW, I got this stuff for voiceover, but now I'm screwing around with MIDI, and damn, it's unbelievably fun. Somebody posted about having a keyboard follow recorded MIDI instructions, and recording the audio from the keyboard into the analog on a soundcard at the same time. I have been doing just that. Now I gotta figure out how to run multiple sounds on the keyboard at the same time. I did it once or twice, but don't ask me how.
Thanks for all the help. I am a happy camper. When I buy a laptop, I'll even record while camping.
CRINZ
 
Crinz I was in the same boat as you a year or so ago and now I'm a midi geek!
Keep on recording!

GOOD LUCK!
 
Thanks for the help Acidrock

You steered me in the right direction. Much appreciation.
CRINZ
 
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