I got it to work. I plugged the USB cable into the eSata/USB port and after the drivers installed, it worked fine. Thanks everyone for your help, I really appreciate it.
@MicroTest, what sound card settings are you referring to? From Control Panel-> Hardware and Sound->Sound, under the Recording Tab, I have Bluetooth Microphone and Microphone which is the default from the sound card. I don't have anything that refers to a USB sound device.
From Control Panel->Hardware and Sound->Realtek HD Audio Manager, there is nothing for USB devices under Microphone or under Advanced->Jack Information.
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"The USB connector is actually a tiny USB sound card, which is instantly recognised as a USB audio device on every version of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X we tested. It's a welcome change from fiddling around with fragile 1/4in to 3.5mm conversion leads and line inputs.
Audio quality was excellent, beautifully capturing the warm tones of our guitar. It's a breeze to use with most PC guitar effects and audio editing software - we just had to select the device, which appears as a C-Media USB microphone, as our line input. Your usual audio device will handle the speak output as normal."
From Control Panel->Hardware and Sound->Realtek HD Audio Manager, there is nothing for USB devices under Microphone or under Advanced->Jack Information.
I am not familiar with that cable, but if it contains an ADC converter then it is an external sound "card" as MicroTest said, not part of the internal Realtek sound "card", and as as such I would not expect to see it in the Realtek manager. Try looking again in the Recording tab of the Sound properties. I want to put in a screen shot but for some reason the forum will not let me do that anymore. On the recording tab, right click in the white area and select to show disabled and disconnected devices to see if there.
According to the article they just plugged in the USB device and the built in Microsoft USB driver was all they needed.Actually I would have expected a special software/driver to be installed.If you exactly followed the installation instructions you should have an additional entry next to your Bluetooth,microphone and other line input devices.
Open the devicemanager and see if there is any entry referring to your guitar device.It should be active and no exclamation mark visible.
For general Audio questions/problems I recommend you to read "Jimco's"
Tuxedo1
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March 13th, 2012 16:00
I got it to work. I plugged the USB cable into the eSata/USB port and after the drivers installed, it worked fine. Thanks everyone for your help, I really appreciate it.
Tuxedo1
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March 12th, 2012 16:00
@MicroTest, what sound card settings are you referring to? From Control Panel-> Hardware and Sound->Sound, under the Recording Tab, I have Bluetooth Microphone and Microphone which is the default from the sound card. I don't have anything that refers to a USB sound device.
From Control Panel->Hardware and Sound->Realtek HD Audio Manager, there is nothing for USB devices under Microphone or under Advanced->Jack Information.
MicroTest
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March 12th, 2012 16:00
www.expertreviews.co.uk/.../lindy-usb-guitar-cable
excerpt from above link================================================
"The USB connector is actually a tiny USB sound card, which is instantly recognised as a USB audio device on every version of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X we tested. It's a welcome change from fiddling around with fragile 1/4in to 3.5mm conversion leads and line inputs.
Audio quality was excellent, beautifully capturing the warm tones of our guitar. It's a breeze to use with most PC guitar effects and audio editing software - we just had to select the device, which appears as a C-Media USB microphone, as our line input. Your usual audio device will handle the speak output as normal."
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check your soundcard settings - you should have an additional entry for your USB device
Free Audio editing software:
audacity.sourceforge.net
Jim Coates
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March 12th, 2012 17:00
I am not familiar with that cable, but if it contains an ADC converter then it is an external sound "card" as MicroTest said, not part of the internal Realtek sound "card", and as as such I would not expect to see it in the Realtek manager. Try looking again in the Recording tab of the Sound properties. I want to put in a screen shot but for some reason the forum will not let me do that anymore. On the recording tab, right click in the white area and select to show disabled and disconnected devices to see if there.
MicroTest
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March 12th, 2012 17:00
According to the article they just plugged in the USB device and the built in Microsoft USB driver was all they needed.Actually I would have expected a special software/driver to be installed.If you exactly followed the installation instructions you should have an additional entry next to your Bluetooth,microphone and other line input devices.
Open the devicemanager and see if there is any entry referring to your guitar device.It should be active and no exclamation mark visible.
For general Audio questions/problems I recommend you to read "Jimco's"
===============Laptop Audio FAQ's===============
en.community.dell.com/.../19430024.aspx
post back with some more information about your USB device