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Switching between two sound cards.
I have a soundcard for recording, the E-MU 0404, that has inputs that
require my preamp and large mics that I use. Aside from not wanting to use two mics and a preamp, every time I talk over VOIP, I'm not sure, but I don't think it "duplexes" properly for use with VOIP, which I'm going to be using when I get a broadband connection soon. This recording card was such a pain to install and get working properly....anyway, is there a way, in WinXP, that I can switch between the two sound cards easily, using the built in cheap one for internet telephony and the E-MU for recording? I would be asking this in an EMU forum but, I went through the whole registration process for one, and then didn't receive a confirmation. Thanks |
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Switching between two sound cards.
Thought I'd answer my own question, in case anyone ever stumbles on
this in a search. Turned out it wasn't that hard to switch between two sound cards. To disable my recording card, and enable the basic one the computer came with (with mic and headphone jacks on the front of the computer), I went into CONTROL PANEL, SYSTEM and by right clicking in the items under sound, disabled my recording card, and enabled two things for my basic sound card. Reboot. Going back the sound card, did the opposite, and didn't need to reboot. On Aug 13, 5:37 pm, Dirk wrote: I have a soundcard for recording, the E-MU 0404, that has inputs that require my preamp and large mics that I use. Aside from not wanting to use two mics and a preamp, every time I talk over VOIP, I'm not sure, but I don't think it "duplexes" properly for use with VOIP, which I'm going to be using when I get a broadband connection soon. This recording card was such a pain to install and get working properly....anyway, is there a way, in WinXP, that I can switch between the two sound cards easily, using the built in cheap one for internet telephony and the E-MU for recording? I would be asking this in an EMU forum but, I went through the whole registration process for one, and then didn't receive a confirmation. Thanks |
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Switching between two sound cards.
On 2007-08-13, Dirk wrote:
I have a soundcard for recording, the E-MU 0404, that has inputs that require my preamp and large mics that I use. Aside from not wanting to use two mics and a preamp, every time I talk over VOIP, I'm not sure, but I don't think it "duplexes" properly for use with VOIP, which I'm going to be using when I get a broadband connection soon. This recording card was such a pain to install and get working properly....anyway, is there a way, in WinXP, that I can switch between the two sound cards easily, using the built in cheap one for internet telephony and the E-MU for recording? I would be asking this in an EMU forum but, I went through the whole registration process for one, and then didn't receive a confirmation. I have a pro soundcard for recording that doesn't perform well for day-to-day tasks like VOIP and gaming. To get around this, I set my motherboard's onboard sound chip to be the default sound device in Windows. I then connect it's analogue ins and outs to my pro sound card which is connected to my amp and speakers. Any pro audio software is usually capable of ignoring the Windows default soundcard setting and going straight to the pro soundcard following some configuration. Any consumer software (voip and games) will use the windows default card. Works quite well. I even have a noise gate on the pro soundcard which cuts the noise from the onboard sound chip when not in use -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters. |
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