Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: "Scott A. May" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Question Date: 24 Mar 1994 01:41:48 +0200 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 36 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: "Scott A. May" NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU:smay01@BIGCAT.MISSOURI.EDU> Comments: To: Kirk Jensen Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: <9403231935.AA11180@bigcat.missouri.edu> On Wed, 23 Mar 1994, Kirk Jensen wrote: > You can get it to work, but most people would find it very inconvenient > or expensive (for an external mixer). > > The Sound Blaster Pro is an 8-bit mono card with an on-board mixer. It > works just fine, although 8-bit mono sound is nothing to write home about. > The regular Sound Blaster doesn't have a mixer, and that is not very > convenient unless you have an external mixer. More on this below. I guess I'm fuzzy about this "mixer" stuff. Here's my personal setup: CD-ROM with its own proprietary card. The CD audio is connected via RCA jacks on the card to a pair of amplified speakers. All other MIDI, WAV, etc. is routed through the Sound Blaster card, internally. I have no direct connections between the CD drive and my sound card. I honestly don't see why I'd need any. Perhaps I'm missing out on something, but I think I have all sound bases covered. I assume all this talk of mixing is if you have both units (CD and sound card) connected to a single output (speaker system). > Many CD-ROM products have both Red Book audio and encoded audio on the same > disc. They may switch back and forth, or do the introduction in Red Book and > then shift over to encoded. Unless you have a mixer, you have to guess which > input to try to listen to. In any case, it is going to be a real pain > switching back and forth on your stereo. > If you mix the signals, you can pick up both kinds from the mini-stereo > output plug at the back of the sound card. There is no requirement for > any hard disk space to do it this way. This seems to confirm my assumption that you're using one set of speakers to hear both the CD audio and sound card, correct? S/ /M