First, may I just say it's good to be back on the list. I was a member several years ago, and when I ran into the problem I'm about to describe, I must admit to being thrilled and relieved to learn through a Google search that this list remains viable and active. So thanks first of all to each of you for being part of this. Now a description of my problem:
One of my Christmas gifts this year was an upgrade from Sound Forge 8 to Sound Forge 9 so I could use the program on my new Vista laptop running Vista Business. I'm in the process of attempting to convert spoken-word cassettes to MP3 files for use on my Victor Reader Stream. My Dell laptop has one of those Sigma Tel audio drivers, and it has one of those bizarre hybrid jacks that when you insert a patch cord or microphone, you're forced to pick from a pop-up list what it is you're inserting into the plug. When I connect the cassette unit, I select line in when the pop-up list activates. Then I bring up Sound Forge 9 and attempt to make my recording. All I hear when I play things back is whatever the laptop's internal microphone picked up. I never hear the content of my cassette, and I'm not able to monitor the sounds coming from the cassette as it records. I suspect the sound card and drivers in this laptop are of such ridiculously limited capability that I'm not going to be able to use Sound Forge with it and have it allow me to hear the cassette both as I'm recording it and later as I play it back. I've checked the check box in Sound Forge that deals with monitoring, but I obviously have some setting somewhere wrong. I've looked at both the playback controls and the record controls in the volume program, and I can't see anywhere that allows me to tell the laptop that the internal microphone should be switched off. So again, in plain concise English, when I attempt to record from a cassette using Sound forge, I cannot hear the tape through my laptop speakers as I would like to; when I attempt to play back what I've recorded, what I get is the sounds picked up from my internal microphone rather than the data from the cassette. If anyone has thoughts on what settings either in Sound Forge or in my laptop I can change, I'd be most grateful to learn about those. Again, my thanks to the list moderator and its members for keeping this list alive so that a slacker like me can run back to it after years of absence when I'm having a problem I clearly can't solve alone. Warmest Wishes for a Pleasant, Memorable and Safe 2009, Nolan Crabb Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
