Posted by: Jan
« on: December 10, 2012, 03:15:05 pm »Help file section 5 - F.A.Q.:
How can I monitor an output of my sound card?
Simply said: you cannot. You can monitor a recording input only. This is the reason why input is input and output is output. Never mind! Most of sound cards allow you to select the sound card output as the input, i.e. redirecting the sound card playback output back to the recording input. This can be done using two different ways:
In the sound card audio mixer settings (volume control):
Usually you can find the appropriate option if you double-click on the speaker icon in tray, then go to Options – Properties and select Recording. Then select the sound card input named as 'Mixer output', 'Stereo output', 'Wave output' or similar. Unfortunately exact steps may be different for each model of sound card. In some cases the driver does not provide this facility at all - this is especially a problem of Vista and later where the sound system is extremely deformed. For this reason you have to follow your sound card documentation. Some useful information about this issue can be found also using Google.
Using a physical cable:
If the way above fails, connect a splitting adapter to the sound card output and feed the signal to any sound card input that can be monitored (usually named as 'Line-in'). If the sound card is already used for recording, install another sound card to your PC (for example USB based).
How can I monitor an output of my sound card?
Simply said: you cannot. You can monitor a recording input only. This is the reason why input is input and output is output. Never mind! Most of sound cards allow you to select the sound card output as the input, i.e. redirecting the sound card playback output back to the recording input. This can be done using two different ways:
In the sound card audio mixer settings (volume control):
Usually you can find the appropriate option if you double-click on the speaker icon in tray, then go to Options – Properties and select Recording. Then select the sound card input named as 'Mixer output', 'Stereo output', 'Wave output' or similar. Unfortunately exact steps may be different for each model of sound card. In some cases the driver does not provide this facility at all - this is especially a problem of Vista and later where the sound system is extremely deformed. For this reason you have to follow your sound card documentation. Some useful information about this issue can be found also using Google.
Using a physical cable:
If the way above fails, connect a splitting adapter to the sound card output and feed the signal to any sound card input that can be monitored (usually named as 'Line-in'). If the sound card is already used for recording, install another sound card to your PC (for example USB based).