Connect my Receiver to my Audigy Soundcard - Problems

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 1 Mar 2002 11:18 am

I am trying to convert some old vinyl LP's and cassettes to MP3. I have a new AIWA Home Theatre receiver & a new Audigy Sound Card (Sound Blaster).

I connect my receiver to the sound card via the receiver's RECORD LINE-OUT to the sound card's LINE-IN. Everything in Windows is at full max volume (all the recording control panel stuff, LINE-IN is selected as the recording source). Everything in the sound card's software is at MAX.

According to the reciever's specs, the RECORD LINE-OUT is putting out 300mV (1 kOhm).

I am hardly getting a blip of a signal into the sound card. Very weak. It does record, but on playback the signal is weak and sounds way in the distance. I have to turn the volume to 10 to hear anything.

If I put an amplified source into the sound card's LINE IN such as a Walkman's headphone output, I get a decent signal.

Any ideas?

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Gerald Ross

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George Wixon · Post by **George Wixon** » 1 Mar 2002 2:13 pm

Gerald,
I also have an AIWA home system and a Sound Blaster 16 PCI sound card. I have done exactly what you are talking about and also do this now for recordings that I would like to have on a cd. I take the input directly from the phone jack output and put that into the line input of my sound card. The receiver's output level is set at about 8 on the digital display and my settings for the recording levels are at 50% for the line input. I made the cable to go from the phone jack output to the line input using a 1/4" stereo jack and a 1/8" stereo jack from Radio Shack. Because the receiver is set so low I enable the auxilary output on the recording software panel's output so that I can hear what's being recorded via the sound card through my powered speakers from the soundcard's out put. My AIWA set was bought back in 97 so it is fairly new but it didn't have a line output for recording. This works fine for me and I've never had any problems doing it this way.