Originally Posted By: Sly Ruby
Hi, I was wondering about the Sound card factoring in to our BiaB mixes. What if a person just has the Onboard Realtek sound. Just the basic motherboard sound when they are working with BiaB and trying to Mix their music. Would I for some reason have a better product with buying a 50 dollar sound card?

I found this:
Refurbished Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe Sound Card for 39.99 refurbished. Would something like that help? I think you all will say no, not at all. That doesn't factor in. But that is just my low-tech assumption.


If you are not Recording, but just using it to Playback, most modern PC built in sound devices have fairly good to excellent Playback capability specs these days. That is because of the huge customer base interest in playing of Audio and Video files on the PC.

Your ears should be your guide here.

When using the onboard sound device, make sure that you visit the Control Panel via the Speaker icon and turn the faders for the right outputs and masters UP to drive your amplified speakers with full audio. Adjust volume levels inside the host software in use at the time. This one thing leads many to believe that the onboard sound devices sound bad. But the reality is that the audio will indeed sound rather "thin" if those key Playback faders are not turned up to at least abiout 75% of full travel. In many cases, I turn the all the way up - and adjust overall volume at the speaker amplifier itself, using the hardware volume.


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