New to PC recording - please help!!!

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Hi,

I've got a Sound blaster audigy 2 card with the separate front panel and have been trying to record audio with my guitar with no success at all! I'm using Cubasis VST 4 that came with the audigy 2 but I can't seem to get the PC to recognise the guitar at all - can anyone help? I've plugged it in directly to the Line In on the front panel but am getting no signal that the guitar is there from anywhere.

I've also got a Line 6 POD and have recorded often on an analogue 4 track but since I'm new to all of this, I've got no idea where to go. I followed the simple tutorial to set up the audio in Cubasis and record a track and I think I understood it all but am getting no signal to set levels. Are there any hardware settings that I need to alter to allow Audio recording or any other settings I should have changed perhaps. Looked around in the control panel but can't find anything there either. I've ran the 'Creative Diagnostics' tool and all seems well with the card installation and settings and it plays system and game sounds perfectly. All I want to do is be able to record a simple guitar audio track onto Cubasis but can't - any ideas?

Thanks,

Jamie.
 
Hey, Jamie.

Look under Audio:Inputs and see if the correct device is selected.

Hope you figure it out, man!
 
IF no luck here you may want to try the Cubase Forum.

Good Luck

Stockton
 
I have an audigy 2 zs. Click on your speaker icon to see if your line in is turned off. I haven't tried my guitar through this input but only my multitracker. I would think that the mic in would be more suited for this.
 
Thanks for the help. Tried the speaker icon and no inputs are muted so all seems fine there. It works if I plug it into the line in at the back of the computer into the sound card directly - seems to be the front audigy drive line in that doesn't work. Does anyone know where this can be 'activated' - plugging in headphones here doesn't work either although the drive itself must be ok since I've used the optical out to record minidiscs and also the remote control for the drive works??? Mmmm.... any ideas?
 
You just checked the output settings by double clicking the little speaker.
You need to make sure the record input is set in the windows mixer also, to "line in" or "mic in" depending on which you are using. You don't want it set to "What U hear" ... It must be line in or mic in for which ever you use!
Double click the little speaker .... click options .... click properties ... click recording ..... place a check mark in all of the options it lists ...... click OK.
Now you are looking at all of the inputs. Place a check mark at the desired input (Line-In or Microphone) that you are connecting to.

-Ken
 
Thanks for the help Ken, had already dabbled in the creative mixer and tried again changing it as you describe. The Creative mixer I have is basically the same as the SB Live one you mentioned in the other thread I posted in the Cubase forum. Anyawy, still having no luck! Been trying this for hours! Days in fact! I've been trying the guitar direct and also through the POD preamp but still nothing. It's as of there's no signal going to the PC - checked all leads etc and they're fine.

Plugging a microphone into the actual 1/8" socket on the card works fine but I don't want to have to get an adapter and move the computer everytime I need to record hence why I got the audigy card with the drive on the front. If it worked eventually, should I hear the guitar/input device through the speakers as soon as it is plugged in or only when running/recording in Cubasis? Thanks again for the help, any more suggestions would be great.

Jamie.
 
My audigy works as soon as you plug something into it without any programs activated. But ... the first audigy I purchased the mic in was staticy and I couldn't get the speakers to work. Eventually contacted audigy department and was given test instructions. The tests said everything was fine but half the card didn't work. Audigy's own tech said it was a problem with the card and to return it for a new one. It seems that Creative has a quality control problem and you may be experiencing the same problem. Hardware and not software settings. Try this link for tech support.
http://www.creaf.com/support/
 
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