Realtek Sucks

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So I have this run of the mill Gigabyte motherboard with 3 audio jacks. line in blue, mic pink, and output green. I am running two mics for overheads into my 8 track for a preamp (sucks) and then RCA out to a stereo 1'8" down to the pink mic input. On my realtek detection thing, under microphone options I see the option (checkbox) to make the mic input stereo, only it is dimmed and unaccessible...As in, I cannot check it. So when I listen to the outs of my 8 track, I hear a stereo spread, but when I listen to the output of my computer I hear only mono from the two mics. What, if anything, is there to be done? Is my motherboards "sound card" just not compatible for a stereo mic input? Doesn't make sense in VA,
Jonathan

here's my motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128305R
 
ParkerParker said:
So I have this run of the mill Gigabyte motherboard with 3 audio jacks. line in blue, mic pink, and output green. I am running two mics for overheads into my 8 track for a preamp (sucks) and then RCA out to a stereo 1'8" down to the pink mic input. On my realtek detection thing, under microphone options I see the option (checkbox) to make the mic input stereo, only it is dimmed and unaccessible...As in, I cannot check it. So when I listen to the outs of my 8 track, I hear a stereo spread, but when I listen to the output of my computer I hear only mono from the two mics. What, if anything, is there to be done? Is my motherboards "sound card" just not compatible for a stereo mic input? Doesn't make sense in VA,
Jonathan

here's my motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128305R


If you are coming off a preamp, it should go to "line in" anyway.......

Also, not familair with a single "stereo mic input" anywhere, on anything.....
 
alright, I've tried to go through line in, but how do I get my Sonar to recognize that as the recording In?
 
ParkerParker said:
alright, I've tried to go through line in, but how do I get my Sonar to recognize that as the recording In?


I don't use sonar, but it should show up in the input section. I have apogees, but my nvidia input is available to me as well.
 
With an AC97 audio system like the Realtek chip, you don't see the record input channel options in any recording software - there is always just one stereo record device. Which physical input is feeding that device depends on the Windows record selector/mixer.
See this tutorial...
http://www.sagebrush.com/mixtech.htm

Although these things have a "stereo" type mic socket, they are for mono mics. Desktop/headset electret mics use the "ring" contact of the socket for a "phantom power" supply - usually around 2.5volts DC. Such mics will have a "stereo" mini jack plug. A mono plug will obviously short the phantom supply, but it's designed to tolerate this.
 
Jim Y said:
With an AC97 audio system like the Realtek chip, you don't see the record input channel options in any recording software - there is always just one stereo record device. Which physical input is feeding that device depends on the Windows record selector/mixer.
See this tutorial...
http://www.sagebrush.com/mixtech.htm

Although these things have a "stereo" type mic socket, they are for mono mics. Desktop/headset electret mics use the "ring" contact of the socket for a "phantom power" supply - usually around 2.5volts DC. Such mics will have a "stereo" mini jack plug. A mono plug will obviously short the phantom supply, but it's designed to tolerate this.


thanks so much, I understand now
 
hehe i remeber the days when i used a realtek soundboard into a copy of pro audio 9 i borrowed from my uncle, hooked a little soundboard up and a mic and i have to admit it wasnt as bad as you would think, was better than a higher level soundblaster auido card i tried hehehe :D sorry just got hit by the memories
 
tbone36109 said:
hehe i remeber the days when i used a realtek soundboard into a copy of pro audio 9 i borrowed from my uncle, hooked a little soundboard up and a mic and i have to admit it wasnt as bad as you would think, was better than a higher level soundblaster auido card i tried hehehe :D sorry just got hit by the memories

It has been a long two weeks, hasn't it?

HAHA. :D Sorry, couldn't resist.
 
Onboard sound really isn't as terrible as it's assumed to be. Granted, you should notice an improvement over these with a proper interface, especially when recording. The typical on-board mic amp is still pretty poor so an external mic preamp going into the line-in is really a must. For playback, the onboard isn't much worse than most of the CD and mp3 players there are.

Many of these things, like Soundblasters, actually only run at 48Khz and other rates are handled through Sample-rate conversion. So a bit of an improvement can be got by working at 48KHz in your projects and then use software (which will be better at it) to convert the mixdowns to 44.1Khz to make CD's. The only ones I know that can actually run at 44.1Khz is the C-media CMI series.
 
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