AAAHHH! Recording with Dell 8600 with Sigmatel C-Major Problem ..

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I have an 8600 with A celerion 1.4 running XP home, 512 mem and 80 gig drive.  It has a Sigmatel C-major chip for audio.  I want to use it with my Cakewalk Homestudio 2.  I thought I have everything working but whenever I record it gives me the recording of the playback.  It is as if it is set to 'record what you hear' in my other systems.  I can't find a way to turn this off.  I want to record only the mic in jack, nothing else.  What is it I need to do to get this process working?   Dale Message Edited by drpietrzak on 01-07-2005 01:17 AM

drpietrzak · Answer

It may be that the system is picking up the sound on the external mic.   Is there a way to dsiable the external mic only?

Leo_s84 · Answer

You do know the MIC in is not Stereo but Mono right?, the music you record won't sound very good anyway.

Leo_s84 · Answer

Yep, i have the same sound card. It's integrated on the chipset, i think all inspiron's have the same.   The output is, in fact, stereo. But the mic port is not.   Where do you say it says it's stereo?

drpietrzak · Answer

Mine says stereo.  Hum are you sure?

drpietrzak · Answer

When I ran my stereo recodding deveice into the mic in it recorded a stereo track. At least it looked like it with the L and R meters jumping differently. The selection id inputs in the 'selection" for Cakewak HS also allows left, right and stereo. When I double click on the "recording" setting for the mixer it gived me a stereo mix option for recording along with mic. As I have found nothing on the "stereo mix" setting I really have no idea what it does though.

Dale

Leo_s84 · Answer

Well thats weird. I was quite sure it was mono, i ve read about it a lot of times. Maybe it's your model then that has stereo input.

drpietrzak · Answer

It is hard to tell as I can't find any specs on most of the things in the computer.  Like the sound chip.  This part is a bit frustrating.  The only info I have found is at the SigmaTel site, and it is not specific to my system as near as I can tell.  I ordered one of the 'Holiday Special' modesl with the Celerion 1.4 an 80 gig drive the 8600 pacakge 2 that was running at the time.

Leo_s84 · Answer

Yeah well the sound card is the same as mine. It's an integrated chipset, wich means it's on the motherboard, it's not a different card or nothing like the video card

drpietrzak · Answer

I knew that part, but I figured there would be some info on it. SigmaTel says they do not really release due to agreements with the hardware manufacturer. As such the manufacturer is supposed to have the specs. But, if they are out there I can't find them!

Dale

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