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drummer999
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I'm a new Sonar user so I appologise if this is a really basic question.
I received Sonar as a great gift from my brother this christmas. I had mentioned an interest in going digital. (instead of my current bare bones mixer & cassete deck setup) The new digital setup uses the same "cheap but not Radio Shack" 8 channel mixer going into the RCA inputs on a Creative Labs Audigy sound card. This card is a nearly top quality sound card, but seems designed more for surround sound and gaming than recording, or at least multitrack recording. I've figured out how to record two independant tracks at once on the left and right rca inputs. Its great, much better than cassette for sure.
The problem I'm having started when I went back to add a third and fourth track. I cut the new tracks and they sounded good until i tried to adjust the levels on the new tracks. They both had (loud) signals from tracks 1 and 2 recorded along with the new stuff. I've gone over everything twice looking for a problem in the physical routing, and all the software stuff i understand, but I cannot find the cause of this. I think now that it is in the sound card wiring, because the signal in the sound card is blended no matter what the source (live or recorded), and this blended signal is what Sonar records. Can I or does anyone use a card like this for recording more than two tracks?, or Should I start shopping for a new card right away?
Thanks for any ideas.
I received Sonar as a great gift from my brother this christmas. I had mentioned an interest in going digital. (instead of my current bare bones mixer & cassete deck setup) The new digital setup uses the same "cheap but not Radio Shack" 8 channel mixer going into the RCA inputs on a Creative Labs Audigy sound card. This card is a nearly top quality sound card, but seems designed more for surround sound and gaming than recording, or at least multitrack recording. I've figured out how to record two independant tracks at once on the left and right rca inputs. Its great, much better than cassette for sure.
The problem I'm having started when I went back to add a third and fourth track. I cut the new tracks and they sounded good until i tried to adjust the levels on the new tracks. They both had (loud) signals from tracks 1 and 2 recorded along with the new stuff. I've gone over everything twice looking for a problem in the physical routing, and all the software stuff i understand, but I cannot find the cause of this. I think now that it is in the sound card wiring, because the signal in the sound card is blended no matter what the source (live or recorded), and this blended signal is what Sonar records. Can I or does anyone use a card like this for recording more than two tracks?, or Should I start shopping for a new card right away?
Thanks for any ideas.
