Soundcards

[mollycat]

Soundcards

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Hi

Firstly I would like to thank all members for their invaluable advice in the past and hopefully this will be my last problem.
I have converted from a karaoke machine to using a laptop, I have brought a Trust SC-5500P 5.1 External Surround sound card and connected everything,I have played around with the sound card facilities but still do not feel that the sound quality is as good as when I was playing discs through a karaoke machine,Is this to be expected or is the sound card I am using not good enough.
Please advise me

Many thanks

Mollycat

[OnTheMicDJs]

I don't know too much about other brands or models, but I use M-Delta Audio 1010LT...Sound quality is great...good for recording too.

[DanG2006]

I use a behringer U-control sound card and it sounds great. It's a basic usb soundcard that outputs via rcs jacks rather than a headphone out. Much better sounding than that of the headphone out of my laptop.

[mollycat]

Thanks for the replies, would the problem I have is because my sound card is "suround sound" as opposed to stereo

Ta

Mollycat

[letitrip]

Hey Molly, what exactly are you noticing is wrong with the sound quality? Are you getting distortion? Is the sound muddied (hard to understand vocals, not a "bright" overall)? It could be that simply setting your channel EQ on the mixer might fix your problem. I use a pretty cheap usb sound card and the onboard sound card (one for house music one for karaoke music) and I don't have any sound issues.

As far as the 5.1 causing it, my initial reaction would be no. Music off a CD is 2-track, meaning only left & right signals. Therefore all your content should be in those two channels which on your device are output through the "front" jack. The only way I could see that the 5.1 would cause an issue is if the soundcard's drivers have some sort of surround emulation mode where it attempts to turn the two track recording into a 5.1 output but I would think that you would have had to enable that and set it up (I Don't think it would be a default).

Hope that helps.

[Bigdog]

Can you change the sound card settings? Like to stereo. Are you over driving the sound to the card? My internal sound card sound perfectly fine. But I have a great PA system.

[mwadeson]

is anyone running a usb sound card with two outputs that is fairly cheap just want to try one before i buy a good one and where can i find it. Thank you

[enzoab]

Soundcards

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Hi

Firstly I would like to thank all members for their invaluable advice in the past and hopefully this will be my last problem.
I have converted from a karaoke machine to using a laptop, I have brought a Trust SC-5500P 5.1 External Surround sound card and connected everything,I have played around with the sound card facilities but still do not feel that the sound quality is as good as when I was playing discs through a karaoke machine,Is this to be expected or is the sound card I am using not good enough.
Please advise me

Many thanks

Mollycat

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