I have two PCs with sound cards. I don't know the brand names so I can only describe by i/o ports.
One has three i/o ports colors are as pictured and the other sound card has same plus one which is gray
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What is the difference between line in and mic in. Well, I know what mic in is so what is line in?
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So like if I have a player of some sort, like a record player, tape player, or other device and as long as the device has an audio out then I can plug it into the line in port and hear the music?
I plugged my mic into the pink port and using a software sound recorder I spoke into the mic. The app indicates it is recording and saves the file. Then I can click on play to play back the file but all I get is what sounds like static; no voice what-so-ever. Could the problem be the mic, the software app, or my sound card?
Anything I post is an example only and is not intended to be the only solution, the total solution nor the final solution to your request nor do I claim that it is. If you find it useful then it is entirely up to you to make whatever changes necessary you feel are adequate for your purposes.
So like if I have a player of some sort, like a record player, tape player, or other device and as long as the device has an audio out then I can plug it into the line in port and hear the music?
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Originally Posted by jmsrickland
I plugged my mic into the pink port and using a software sound recorder I spoke into the mic. The app indicates it is recording and saves the file. Then I can click on play to play back the file but all I get is what sounds like static; no voice what-so-ever. Could the problem be the mic, the software app, or my sound card?
Open control panel> Sound applet i think it will help you to diagnostic the problem.
Yes it did. I have two sound adapters installed (I had forgotton that). One is AVerMedia which is a video capturing card I used a few years ago to capture video off the TV with sound. The other is a Creative Sound Blaster PCI card. I had the voice record set to AVerMedia and Voice Playback set to Creative Sound Blaster. When I tested using the control panel's Sound and Audio Devices it didn't work. I then changed the record to also be set to Creative Sound Blaster then ran the test again. This time I could hear my voice on playback so this tells me my hardware is functioning correctly. Then I tried the sound recording app I downloaded again. It still plays back static.
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By static I mean instead of hearing my voice play back I hear what sounds like a hissing type sound or noise I guess but no voice. My mic is in the pink i/o port on the Creative Sound Blaster card. During the Windows test it echoed back my voice as I spoke but the app records your voice first then creates a file then you have to click on the file from a list on the GUI to hear what you recorded. I even tried the line input but same thing.
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OK, got the app to work - appearently I had some incorrect settings. I found Windows voice recorder and it worked.
Now I just have to learn how to write my own application for voice recording for my voice chat application I'm working on.
Thanks for all your help. I would have been completely lost without your replys.
Last edited by jmsrickland; May 7th, 2013 at 06:45 PM.
Anything I post is an example only and is not intended to be the only solution, the total solution nor the final solution to your request nor do I claim that it is. If you find it useful then it is entirely up to you to make whatever changes necessary you feel are adequate for your purposes.
clarifying some misinformation here: line-in is for inputs that have power on them. Pre-amped in other words. Mic input supplies its own power.
and the mic input is much higher gain. you can plug a pre-amped source into the mic-in and you "probably" won't damage anything but the soundcard expects that input to be much lower gain so you will get distortion.
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