Edit: Summary… Due to legal reasons or through negotiation it seems that the major laptop and motherboard suppliers left out a “Windows” feature called “Record what you hear”. If enabled it would appear as an other device in the “record” mode of your windows mixer. Most of these boards have sound cards provided by “Real Tek” and “High Definition” and perhaps many other brands.
Sound Blaster Has several models to support this feature. The models are listed in a later post.
Why would one want this feature. Let’s say you want to record yourself singing Karaoke with the musical background perfectly mixed. You would be able to do it with out the “record what you hear” or final audio mix enabled. You may want add narration and sound effects live to a presentation and want a live recording. That feature will let you do it.
I’m doing a “radio” monologue and I want o be able to add sound effects live as punctuation or effect. Previously this was no problem.
- Open the windows mixer to select recording device. Right there was an option called “Record what you hear!”
- Select the levels of my sound effects in windows mixer
- Start Audacity record and have fun.
Everything that came from my speakers was perfectly recorded.
I did not do this for a while. I had since upgraded my computer, I had since upgraded windows and I now want to do this again. Also my precious SoundBlaster (my baby) Soundcard gave up its ghost. I had that through three machines I can’t find the “record what you hear” option.
I’ve done resarch… I’ve found it could either be
a. This feature was intentionally removed from windows to make it harder to copy copyrighted material (never stops me and I back up all my media protected or not) or
b. It is the limit limitation of my built in sound-card and that if I buy a third part sound card my record what you hear option will come back.
I was thinking of purchasing an other sound card but even it this late date the sound cards available on line say nothing about Windows 7 comparability…
So to recap…
I need a way to record the final mix, that is the audio as I hear it right from the speakers. I did it before. I don’t want to spend much as this is a hobby and not something I will do for a living. I also did it for free before at great quality.
What is my best option. Thanks.
To answer my own question… The answer is yes… in both cases…
[quote=“Taiwan_Student”]
a. This feature was intentionally removed from windows to make it harder to copy copyrighted material (never stops me and I back up all my media protected or not) [/quote]
Yes, but the agreement is not with Windows,a web article stated that the certain manufacturers signed and agreement with RIAA or what ever those guys are called.
[quote=“Taiwan_Student”]
b. It is the limit limitation of my built in sound-card and that if I buy a third part sound card my record what you hear option will come back.
.[/quote]
Yes, and my pride and joy Soundblaster still does it. They have not sold out…
[i]Dear Taiwan Student
Thank you for getting back to us.
With regards to your enquiry, please be informed that the following sound cards support “What you hear” on Windows 7 system:
PCI / PCI Express
PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD
PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
USB / PCMCIA / Expresscard
Sound Blaster Digital Music Premium HD
Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
They are now available on our online store. You may refer to the link below to check whether there is one sound blaster you are interested in. Kindly go to the product page to get the details.
Sound Blaster:
us.creative.com/products/welcome … category=1[/i]
I always thought this was a Sound Blaster feature. It’s too bad they caved to RIAA pressure.
I think you should be able to do the same thing with a sound card that has a SPDIF input. That’s a digital audio connection so presumably there would be no fidelity loss from output to input.
I have nice memories of my old Sound Blaster 16 but I don’t think Creative was ever the source for “serious” sound cards. Before you get another Sound Blaster you might want to take a look at Asus’ line of sound cards which has gotten good reviews.
[quote=“claimui”]I always thought this was a Sound Blaster feature. It’s too bad they caved to RIAA pressure.
I think you should be able to do the same thing with a sound card that has a SPDIF input. That’s a digital audio connection so presumably there would be no fidelity loss from output to input.
I have nice memories of my old Sound Blaster 16 but I don’t think Creative was ever the source for “serious” sound cards. Before you get another Sound Blaster you might want to take a look at Asus’ line of sound cards which has gotten good reviews.[/quote]
Aww… you read the post too quickly… 1 The record what you hear seems to be and has always been part of Windows 2. Sound Blaster DID NOT SELL OUT! 3. That Real TEK and the other newer system that is in all or most onboard sound cards and laptops has.
Furthermore… there are software ways of recording streams that are not dependent on Soundcards. Taking away this blasted feature does nothing to stop so called piracy. What it does stop are people who want to record their singing from karaoke, manking live radio shows or just playing around with sound effects.