New to PC recording - Please help!!!

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Stratoman

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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? Any help at all would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Jamie.
 
I'm not familiar with the Audigy, but for a Live card you would launch the Creative mixer applet .... make sure you have the input you are using enabled as the recording device.


Live's mixer applet
 
You will require some sort of preamp in order to bring the guitar's signal up to "line level". The easiest way would be to purchase a "DI" box or use the preamps located on a mixer. Why don't you just use the POD? I believe it has a built in preamp?
 
recording on any card

Well as far as i know, you will first have to do a check whether your card is properly installed or not. You also have to ensure that you use creative's mixer for assigning the input for recording and not the windows mixer, If you're experienced with an analog mixer, the virtual mixer is more or less similar and the audigy is a good sound card for recording. perform a series of cecks through other methods aqnd see if the breakout box is working properly. I hope this helps you.
 
i was havng the same problem the other day, dont forget to turn on the input, through pannels, vst inputs, select the in9lr or something like that, turn that selection on then in the mixxer you should be able to monitor the sound, and make sure on your computers volume options that the aux input isnt muted
 
Just do away without the breakout box.

Hi Jamie,
Seems to me u have the same problem that I've experienced in the past, the breakout box for the audigy2 does not want to cooperate with thesofteare that is being used.
My suggestion is to do away with the breakouit box, just go through the back pannel socket which marked as mic input then you will be cooking.
Cheers:
Hallhearted
 
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