Problem Using Two Soundcards

[Unnameduser]

I'm havinga problem. I recently purchased an "Maudio 2496 Audiophile" soundcard. It uses RCA inputs and outputs. Obviously my speakers use a standard stereo jack, and I'm unable to use a stereo adapter to connect the speakers to my soundcard.

So, I use both my original Soundblaster soundcard, and the new Audiophile one. I use the audiophile for the input/recording, and the Sounblaster for monitoring playback on my speakers.

Everything is installed properly, and when I open up the Audiophile mixer to monitor if any sound is coming through, the meters react, but the sound does not come out of my speakers.

Does anyone know what I need to configure in order to to monitor the sound through my speakers?

 

[rpe]

Double click on the yellow speaker icon on your toolbar. Click options, select what your output source will be (audiophile or soundblaster). But......., unless you use an audiophile output to your speakers you are not going to hear anything from the audiophile, only the soundblaster.

 

[Unnameduser]

Thanks so much for your reply!

 

[christiaan]

Obviously my speakers use a standard stereo jack, and I'm unable to use a stereo adapter to connect the speakers to my soundcard.

This is just a matter of buying the right cable for a couple of bucks at Shaque de Radio.

 

[TimOBrien]

A small mixer will help you tremendously.

And the Audiophile is the higher-quality card in your pair, so you will want to monitor from it, not your soundblaster. Make it your main card, with the SBLive just generating MIDI/soundfont sounds.

I ran the line-out of my SBLive to the tape inputs of my small mixer (a Behringer MX802A) and set the preferences of my sequencer so that all audio was handled by my 24-bit card and all MIDI went to the SBLive. Basically treating the SBLive as an internal sound module.

Worked great, but now I've dumped the SBLive and instead use VSTinstrument soundfont player with just the 24-bit card. Works even better.