Clipping line

[size="3" face="courier new,courier">The X FI soundcard that came with my new Dell has no analogue line-in jack. It only lists two mic jacks and a digital jack. Connecting my TASCAM cassette deck to the back panel mic jack results in a terribly clipped recording (as would be expected connecting a deck line-out to a mic line-in.) Adjusting the XFI recording levels does nothing to reduce the clipping. The deck has no way to reduce output gain and no digital output. Am I missing something or should I?forget about recording music on my new 3gig dual-core, VistaOS PC?

bips,
There would be an option for the flexijack in the mixer with LineIn/Mic as a selection. Are their any options for the digital jack? A flexijack functions as linein/mic/digital. If you don't see any of that, I'd guess you don't have a flexijack. But it's odd that you would have two mic inputs without one of them being multifunctional. A bigger problem, I'm afraid, is that Soundblaster microphone inputs are typically mono. I don't know why I didn't think of that before, sorry. I suppose one or both of your mic inputs might be stereo. Do you record two channels? In any case, having two mic inputs allows the possibility for stereo input. But it's not a pretty solution.
Message Edited by Katman on 04-5-2008 2:28 PM

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