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No sound thru notebook speakers using Behringer usb audio adpater
I have an Inspirion 600m, XP2 Home (bought it in 2004)
Sound is coming into this external soundcard because when I hook headphones to it I hear the music from my tape deck (RCA jacks are being used from the deck to the sound card)
The computer seems to be recognizing the external card as when I open the volume control from the task bar, it says it is using "USB Audio Codec" (and not SigmaTel audio, like usual) an the screen changes - it no longer says Volume Control but "Speaker" and using the Speaker and Wave controls the volume on the headset reacts
Have no idea why this is not working. Tried searching through the forum but did not find an exact match
Thanks in advance!
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October 9th, 2007 01:00
"The UCA202 has a headphone jack with a volume control so you can monitor what's being recorded to your computer, as you record it. Just be aware that you won't be able to listen to the playback from your audio recording software through your computer's monitor speakers unless you unplug this device from your USB port first, and there is no warning about this in the manual, which is why the 4 star review instead of 5."
"Cheap and available..this thing works right out of the box. But, like the other reviews note, i cannot monitor through the computer speakers, so i am stuck using headphones (so 4 stars)..not the greatest in the heat."
One reviewer said that although a driver is not needed, Behringer does offer one on their site. It might give you better results.
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October 9th, 2007 09:00
I have a Soundblaster usb external sound card and it doesn't play through the computer's speakers either, when recording. I use a pair of powered speakers with it. However I could select it as the default recording device and the Sigmatel as the default playback device, but even that configuration won't let me monitor the Soundblaster's input directly through the Sigmatel.
I don't know the details about this Behringer or the iMic, but 2 Soundblaster models that can be made to play through the computer speakers are their pcmcia and express slot cards. They can route the audio into the Sigmatel system which in turn plays through the computer's speakers.
About monitoring in general, you might want to look at the Audio FAQ (1st thread) for the question "Why can I hear my mic ...?" I don't know whether or not following those instructions would make a difference or not.
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That would be my guess.
A lot of people use Audacity, it has noise reduction and it's free. As for user friendliness, I don't know. The interface seems harder to use than my normal program, which is Sonar, but that could certainly be that I'm just so used to Sonar. The last time I looked at Audacity I noticed that there were no or few presets in the plugins. A couple of years ago I compared it to Golwave which did have presets. I decided that both were more than worth their costs. Audacity was fantastic for a free program and Goldwave was great for a $50-$60 program. I'm not familiar enough with Polderbits to have an opinion. I think I had the trial version for a while but never used it.
"...the mic jack on notebooks is mono (vs stereo) and not a great idea to use for recording "
All of the Dell notebooks that had the Sigmatel STAC 97xx audio chip, like yours, have a mono mic jack, but starting with the i9400 Dell switched to a Sigmatel 92xx line of chips that support jack multitasking; the jack can configure between a mic jack or a stereo line-in jack.
Jim