Thinking about a 1010-Lt

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Hello

I've just recently discovered this forum, and can see that the contributors know their stuff.

At this time I am running Windows XP Pro, and have a stereo, CD player and cassette player hooked to my system. My soundcard is an Audigy, and up til now has done just about everything I needed. I can now record from the CD to the hard drive, and from the cassette to the hard drive. Problem, I cannot record from the hard drive to the cassette. The Audigy just doesn't have enough I/O's to accomplish this (unless I have missed something).

I have just gotten into recording DVD's (home movies etc.), and might apply some recording to these. Although I am not a musician, my daughter is. There may come a time when I would
want to record her.

I am very comfortable with "tweaking" both the hardware and software on my computer and because of this am open to suggestion regarding soundcard recommendations.

At this time, I have been leaning toward the M-Audio 1010-Lt because of it's unbalanced I/O's (that is RCA hook-ups), and the number of hook-ups. I realize that a pre-amp/mic are part of
the equation, but I am taking this one step at a time.

I understand the Creative Lab products are not highly regarded here, and for that reason I am asking for opinions on whether the 1010-Lt would be the best "fit" in my situation. Since I
have only used Creative products, my knowledge of other cards is very limited.

Here comes the Noob part:

If I am simply listening to a CD or an mp3 off the hard drive, will I notice a difference i.e. better "sound" with the 1010-Lt?

Are the XP drivers mature for the 1010-Lt (I have seen threads in these forums that give me doubts)?

Is the 1010-Lt transparent, in other words, if I sit down and click on an mp3 file, can I kick back and listen, or do I have to jump through hoops of fire in the control panel?

Thanks

Rxman
 
although i own the card your are refering to (the 1010lt not the sb), im may not be qualified to answere this, as your intentions are not what i do with it. but i'll give it a shot-

here's an assumption: you have an output from the sb card into an input on your stereo, in order to play your music from the computer on your stereo- im guessing, well, if your stereo is a component set up, your reciever has connections on the back for a tape deck (among other things. Well every stereo i've ever seen has an in and an out (or record and play) connection, so if you hook up both cables from your reciever to the tape and signal into the reciver from the computer, you should be able to record from the puter to tape. If your stereo is a combo type unit (all in one system) you should have an even easier time of it. it would look like this:

computer-(out)----> to reciever-(in)----> reciever (tape out or record)-------> tape (in)-

press play in the puter and record on the tape and tada!

the draw back with the 1010 is that you have to choose which channel to send signal through which isnt that big a deal, but if thats all you wanna do then you dont have to mess with it at all

btw- i am happy with the 1010lt for recording purposes- good quality and low price- try the above and see if that works for ya, if not come on back

-jeff
 
Rxman said:

Problem, I cannot record from the hard drive to the cassette. The Audigy just doesn't have enough I/O's to accomplish this (unless I have missed something).
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Hey Rxman welcome to the board. You should be able to record to the casette player using the line out of the sound card. I think for the Audigy it's in the back of the computer.
 
Thanks for the quick replies and gracious welcome.

The saga continues.

On the receiver, I have 2 Line-ins and 1 Line-out

On the CD player, I have 1 Line-out

On the Cassette, I have 1 Line-in and 1 Line-out

The soundcard has 1 Line-in and 1 Line-out

I guess I was trying to avoid y-cables at 2 different inputs.
I don't know if this would be an issue or not. I have read
that it is O.K. to go from 1 output out to 2, but not 2 into 1.
This one kind of throws me, since the receiver runs a left/right
"out" into 1 "in" on the soundcard.

Thanks Again

Rxman
 
I think you can solve your problem by sending the tape player's out into the line in of the soundcard and then the soundcard's line out to the in of the tape player. The cd player (assuming it's a cd rom on your computer) should be wired to the soundcard internally and routed through your mixer. If you want to add the receiver into the mix you need to use an x/y switch.
 
As usual, I have not been descriptive enough.

The CD player is actually an external unit, one of those
5 disk jobs.

Appreciate It.

Rxman
 
Run the external cd player through the receiver.
 
Rxman said:
This one kind of throws me, since the receiver runs a left/right
"out" into 1 "in" on the soundcard.
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That's ok to do because you are sending two mono inputs with a y cable into a stereo input. What you can't do is send two mono inputs into a single mono input or 2 stereo inputs into a single stereo input using a y cable.
 
Just out of curiousity, is that Rxman as in the band Rx Bandits? Or some other reference?

Neil
 
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