On Monday 27 December 2004 17:21, Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > I don't know if "audio loop" is the correct terminology, but anyway...
> >
> > A quick and crude audio loop howto:
> >
> > Normally the audio goes out to the speakers, and sometimes, if you're
> > lucky, you have an "audio-out" jack for non-amplified audio (unlike the
> > amplified speaker output). You can redirect the audio-out or speaker-out
> > to the audio-in in either of a couple of ways:
> >
> > * - Using a hard audio line (made from Radio Shack stuff)
> > * - Using your audio control software to have the audio card record what
> > it is playing (what I have used)
> >
> > When using the speaker-out jack, be careful of the volume. You can cause
> > clipping and possible damage to the sound card if the amplification is
> > too high. That's why I would use the audio-out to audio-in loop (with
> > software control). Hence, an "audio loop" recording. Does that sound
> > right?
>
> IANAAudioGeek, but I would interpret an "audio loop" as a sound meant to be
> played repeatedly, so the end merges seamlessly with the beginning. I
> would say what you have done is a "software loopback" or something similar
> (as opposed to a "loopback connector", a piece of wire that connects
> audio-out to audio-in. Neat trick, though. Did that require special
> software, or is it just what your card can do?
That sounds better "audio loopback recording." Last time I did this was with
the EMU10K software control via Kmix. That's for a Soundblaster Live sound
card. However, I believe my inferior SiS7018 can do the same--still using
Kmix.
/mario
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