Looking for a USB sound card that will pass through input

**Sicarius** · 11-25-2008, 04:09 PM

What's your line-in recording volume set to?

**bloodshot710** · 11-25-2008, 04:20 PM

How do I set that? I haven't been able to change the volume for it at all besides the master volume. That could very well be it if I can find where to change it.

**Sicarius** · 11-25-2008, 04:56 PM

The procedure listed above for checking that your MB is set to record on line-in only also gives you the gain on the line-in.

**bratnetwork** · 11-25-2008, 05:51 PM

I had some issues like this when i was setting up my HD Radio with RR. I'm using the Visteon HDZ300 HD Radio Tuner. I first had it setup to a Intel D201GLY2A and it worked fine, then I upgraded to Intel DG45FC and w/ out changing anything with the radio it made horrible crackling noises and no matter what i did with the antenna or anything it wouldn't go away. What I came to discover is that the Visteon seems to put out a pretty strong audio signal and depending on the sensitivity of the input on your motherboard it can come in too strong and cause that distortion. I just went into the volume controls under Sounds in the control panel and turned the volume down for the Line In and it fixed it.

Then I had a slight hissing that could be heard if there was just talking on the radio or if there was silence on the radio, or anytime the Line In was un-muted and no significant sound was coming over that. To fix that I did this:
Mitch's Floating Ground Fix

**kross** · 11-25-2008, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by bloodshot710

How do I set that? I haven't been able to change the volume for it at all besides the master volume. That could very well be it if I can find where to change it.

Double-click the speaker icon in the system tray, under Options, select Properties, then select "Recording", make sure "Line-in" is checked, then hit OK. Then you'll be able to lower the line-in recording level so it sounds better.

**bloodshot710** · 11-26-2008, 12:57 AM

Thanks guys, that pretty much fixed it. I will have to try the fix you pointed to on Mitch's site. I'll try to get that hammered out tomorrow.

**bloodshot710** · 11-27-2008, 02:16 AM

OK, so after using the setup for a little bit I have realized that I have another problem. After setting up the line in plugin, winamp freezes when coming back from hibernation. It does fine coming on from a cold boot though. Let me know if you guys have any ideas on a fix.

I guess I'll just be cold booting till I get this fixed...