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----- Original Message -----
From: W. Wright, W5XD <w5xd@writelog.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] multiple sound boards
>
> During SS SSB I was running the "continuous recording" option but found a
> couple of features lacking. The recording doesn't include what I
> transmitted, and trying to playback recorded audio with WL running is a
> problem because it has one channel or the other muted and the playback
gets
> sent to the rig's mic input so you have turn off the VOX to listen.
>
> I thought I could fix both the problems by adding a second sound card to
my
> computer. I went out and bought a SoundBlaster Live! because it was the
> cheapest one that advertised "content creation". I found a couple of issue
> with WL software not properly supporting two cards, but once I fixed those
> (will be in version 10.22--probably in December), I discovered I still
could
> not make the recorded audio include my transmitted audio. The problem is
> that the sound board apparently has only a one-of-many multiplexer for its
> recording side even though it has a real mixer for its output side. WL
uses
> that mixer output to support the "echo microphone" feature and I think
just
> about all boards have that.
>
> After fixing the WL issues, I ended up with a configuration that would
allow
> listening to recorded audio without interrupting the recording (or
> transmission) in progress. This configuration has the station microphone
and
> receiver audio going into one sound board's mic and line-in inputs, and
that
> same sound board's line-out going to the rig microphone (or phone patch)
> inputs. The corresponding writelog.ini entry is
>
> [configuration]
> SoundBoardIndex=1
>
> Then I setup WL's AudioReview feature to playback on the other sound
board:
>
> [AudioReview]
> SoundboardIndex=0
>
> (These settings only work properly in 10.22)
>
> As an added bonus, the Windows sounds can be turned back on and configured
> to playback in the system's primary sound board. The system sounds as well
> as AudioReview playback then go to a dedicated set of speakers.
>
> Now my question. The disappointment was that the "high end" sound card had
> no mixers on its recording input--it is capable of recording what it hears
> on line in or mic (or any one of about a dozen inputs!) but it is
incapable
> of mixing any of them together. I'm wonding if anyone has a sound card
that
> has such a mixer. The way you would identify it is this way:
>
> 1. Run the Windows Volume Control accessory. (usually in
> Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment or something like that)
> 2. In its Options menu, click on the Properties selection
> 3. in the dialog that comes up, click on the "Recording" button
> 4. In the lower half of that same box, turn ON all the check boxes.
> 5. Click OK, and you go back to the main window, but it reconfigures
itself
> to show the "Recording" controls instead of playback ones.
> 6. If the check boxes lined up across the bottom of the pane are labeled
> "Select", there is no mixer, just a one-of-many multiplexer. Confirm this
by
> clicking on any of the Select buttons. The other ones turn themselves off,
> right?
> 7. If the check boxes lined up across the bottom of the pane have some
other
> label, then maybe you have mixer! Can you turn more than one of them ON at
> the same time? If so, what kind of sound card do you have? I want one!
>
> Its not a major hardware project to build a hardware mixer to solve the
> problem, but it seems silly to do so when I now have two silly sound
boards
> and neither one does it. By the way, my "primary" sound board calls itself
a
> "Crystal SoundFusion" and is built into the motherboard on the Dell PC I
> run.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne, W5XD
>
>
>
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