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Wondered if there was a way to use Realband to Record What You Hear?
I know I was able to do it in Audacity at one time with this same sound card (Sound Blaster).
I can use a mic and record from my speakers externally but wondered if there was an internal method to eliminate external noise.
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Huh? What are you hearing? Unless it is a CD that you can feed in line levels, I can't imagine a way to do it without a mic. How noisy is your studio environment that the background noise is that bad, and again, what are you "hearing" that background noise would really have any sort of effect. I mean, of course, if you are recording spoken word and live near a busy railroad yard..... Just a little nugget for you.... I found 2 doors on the free section of Craigslist. I laid those doors flat on the floor and took a thick shipping mat and stapled it to the doors. When I record vocals, I take that gabo and place it against a corner of my room so the 2 corners of the room and the 2 faces of the door make a 3x3 ft booth that is almost completely anechoic and very quiet. Until the train goes by..... 
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Depends on your soundcard as to how to do it, Carkins (if it is indeed possible).
What kind of soundcard?
I assume you are comparing to the old Creative (SBLive) 'WhatUHear' mixer setting ..
Last edited by rharv; 05/09/12 07:20 PM.
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I just tried it with my AUDIGY 2 ZS and it worked.
I simply turned the speaker volume down.
7 audio tracks to Track 8 stereo. Then I soloed track 8 and listened on speakers,
sounded just fine.
Good Luck.
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I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card in a 7 yr old Dell Dimension 8400 desktop, running Win XP.
In Audacity there is a drop down menu where you select the source of your recording.
The Audacity menu shows various SB Audigy Audio sources such as CD, Mic, MIDI, and "What You Hear".
I also have a Lineport UX-1 interface which also shows up in the drop down along with MS Soundmapper.
If you select (SB Audigy Audio(C8C0):What You Hear) Audacity will record whatever you hear coming out your speakers or headphones, such a sound from a youtube video you may be watching.
I've done it before in Audacity, though I am having trouble getting it to work there now for some reason.
Just wondered if there was a way to do the same thing in Realband.
Due to space constraints I can't really do a good quality sound proofing job and most of the time it's adequate for vocals, until the dog barks.
All my instruments go direct line in through the UX-1 so that'snot a problem.
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Carkins,
I have exactly the same card took it from my old XP system
updated to a point the drivers.
BTW, all tracks below are analog, albeit midi thru VSTi would
probably work just fine.
1. Load your song into RB.
2. Highlight an empty track.
3. Right click the speaker icon lower right on your pc screen.
4. Click on Recording devices.
5. Click on "What U Hear" in popped up screen.
6. Click Set Default. Then OK.
MAKE SURE YOU TURN DOWN YOUR SPEAKERS......
7. Click Red Record button on RB.
8. Click Play.
On my pc the recording was/is invisible.
9. Click on Stop
10. Click Keep Take ?
Turn up your speaker volume.
11. Solo the recorded track.
12. Play it.
Ask me months from now and wont remember....LOL
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Now I understand what "Record what you hear" means. I have never seen that term before, but your details made it clear.
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Seeker:
What I want to do is record songs as they are being played from the internet (as opposed to songs I may have on my computer already) which I was able to do at one time with Audacity.
Tried your approach and for some reason just get static.
Have "What You Hear" selected in the Win Recording Control window, full volume,and Audigy set as default recording device.
Will continue to play around with the different settings in the Windows Sound Folder.
Are there any settings which might have to be changed in RB Preferences?
Or could be something wrong with my sound card as it's pretty old, like me:)
Eddie:
This feature may not be available on all sound cards, I'm not sure.
Any input gladly accepted.
Thanks
Carkins
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Quote:
Wondered if there was a way to use Realband to Record What You Hear?
I know I was able to do it in Audacity at one time with this same sound card (Sound Blaster).
I can use a mic and record from my speakers externally but wondered if there was an internal method to eliminate external noise.
Carkins
There are many ways, however, what you are trying to do is simple.
I must warn you upfront that any audio equipment including a computer
is not very forgiving of feedback loops. So be very careful.
As long as you can't hear the output of what you are recording to, you
should be okay... but don't take chances and start at low levels.
You can take the output of a computer (1/8" jack) and use it for input
as long as there is not a feedback loop.
Be very cautious and careful not to blow any channels amps/preamps.
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Carkins, I just did two recordings...Just loaded blank RB, selected 1 track, and used the above steps. Also used my Headphones with speakers turned down completely. One with song on my PC playing thru WMP. Worked great. Also went to YouTube selected a song recorded, it also worked great. There is another option. Use this...RealPlayer Downloader, Nother member suggested this quite awhile back. It gets it to your PC, then you can load directly into RB. Or play it with WMP and record to your RB.. http://www.real.com/realplayer Good Luck!
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Thanks to all for all the advice.
I'm sure I'll eventually get it straightened out but nothing seemed to work as planned and rather than have my head explode (OUCH!) I am calling it a night and going to plan B which is running a line from my desktop speakers out to my microphone input on my laptop.
Works great and will then transfer files via SD back to the scene of the crime.
This also solves the midi problem I've been having with RB (in another post)not being able to save midi tracks to wavs (silent tracks result)and a new one where saved RB songs lose midi sounds or are altered on reopening them (drums turn to burping pianos or are silent, and other stuff, for another time.
Just another part of my Midi life crisis, I guess.
Maybe I'll do a fresh install and see if that helps (return to factory settings didn't).
Anyways, thanks again for the input.
Carkins
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