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OK, I am trying to find a way to record this way:

I use acustica mixcraft for a basic mixer.
and Adobe audition or cool edit for some final mixing and effects if needed.

What I want to do is record the music on track 1 and “at the same time”, record the microphone on track 2.
The problem is, it only sees the sound card as a whole and not the individual input jacks.

Would going to two soundcards, be the answer, one for the wave/mp3/cd and the other for the microphone, or is there another answer?

Thanks in advance.

going to two soundcards, if your OS is capable of it, may solve the probs or there may be a software solution... off the top of my head I can't think which software would solve it but I am sure there are others who would know without me having to burn any braincells - tig

You can 'cheat' your existing soundcard into doing 2 track recording. Pan the music to the left, the vocals to the right on the mixer. Record like normal. Seperate the left/right channels, and then 'center' them. 2 sepereate tracks recorded at the same time. I've done this with Audigy and my Soundcraft Compact 10 mixer a number of times. Works well when you want to work with the vocals and music seperately.

I can run through it again with better instructions later if you need them. Hopefully this will give you an idea of what to do with a little experimentation.

I think I got what ya mean, but I want to keep the music in stereo on both channels.
The microphone on track two and then mix the vocals while they are in playback to balance two and add effects separately if need be.

Unless I am not getting what you are saying.

Tigrr, that may be what I need to do, my OS is XP, so it should work. I need to buy a new soundcard anyway, so I might just get the Audigy platinum or something and then experiment, see what I can do.

any reason to go buy a new toy for the PC is always a good reason I say good luck- tig

COOOLLL! Where ya been with this info? Hiding out some place?

I am going to have to try this!

If you follow the instructions, you'll loose stereo seperation on the music, but basically in the end you'll have two mono tracks that will play through both stereo channels.

Both of the stereo music tracks will be there, but balanced between the left and right channels. To record stereo music and a mic you'd need 3 channels to record with.

Of course if you really want to go all out you can get the new Mackie Onyx mixer and firewire card. It will record all 16 channels seperately. I'm about to order mine and can't wait to get it hooked up.... (insert drooling sounds here).

Ohhhh, Ohhhh, do they have a 4 channel version?????

No 4 channel version, but they do have a 12 channel version though. It's not cheap - the Firewire card along is about $400.

Check into some of the USB based mixers though. There are a number of them that will work for recording a couple channels (4-8 or so).

I saw one at a pro sound shop in Fairbanks a while back that was pretty slick that was originally designd for use with a Mac, but there was PC based software available.

thanks for the 411