blueskygal
re "not wishing to be technically oriented".
time for some total honesty on my part,
and i hope you take it in the sincere way its meant..
ie..trying to help you.
the simple fact is on board sound chips like the sound card built into your pc
were designed for just basic playback of windows sounds.
thus as other posters have mentioned, you preferably need
a proper sound device. some are quite inexpensive.
the other aspect to be totally honest is in the past musicians
went to studios, did their songs, and the audio engineers "did the tekkie stuff".
BUT..today us songwriters have to wear many hats running our own small studios to do songs.
one of the hats is to be a little "tekkie" so that one can get the best results out of ones gear.
as well as makeing the correct gear purchaseing decisions.
it just comes with the territory.
god bless.

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