how can i hear the mic while playing,and not recording?

[morrisson]

please please help, i've been trying all day to record a song but besides all the other problems i'm having, i can't hear my guitar while playing, only after it is recorded. in my old computer i used to go to the windows xp volume mixer and set playback volume on mic high, and it would do fine, but now i can't find this option... please, i beg your help, i'm supposed to have recorded this song a long time now and simply can't do anything with this new computer. my config is: win 7 64 bit, built-in soundcard from intel motherboard DP55WB

when i go to the 'realtek hd audiomanager' and in the microphone tab set the playback volume to maximum, i think i can hear some really quiet sound humming on the background while strumming my guitar... it's so strange because it records on normal volume.

thanks for any suggestions, and sorry if i ask something stupid because i'm kind of noob with these things

 

[Aphelion]

If you're trying to record Guitar you're going in at "Line" level, not "Mic" level, try raising the Line IN level.

To monitor (hear) through the Realtek device there's a tab called "Listen", you may have to activate this function.

Go to Control Panel/"Sound", all the record/playback functions for your device can be adjusted there.

Ap

 

[morrisson]

thanks for the support, but i couldn't find the 'listen' tab you said, i found only the 'playback volume' under the 'recording volume'... and as i'm a total noob i was recording in the mic hole, i'll use the line-in from now on.. thanks again

 

[TheCurve]

The Best i could ever offer anyone is this advice. Creative sound cards have a selection called "what you hear" and it records or picks up what the computer is outputting. try that.

 

[morrisson]

well.. the problem is exactly that i'm Not hearing the guitar... but in win7 this works differently, and i dont have a dedicated creative soundcard, mine is from the motherboard. but for the win7 there's a great tutorial here in this post: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20595-what-u-hear-recording-enable.html
cheers