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Addendum to this thread: the card doesn't distort as I had previously thought (and maybe posted also). That particular issue is all over the net: the card is waaaaay toooo LOUD and is overgaining! And since I always use jack for my sessions I had no way to lower it. Just installed Jack-Mixer so I'll be seeing if that makes a difference. I do have adapter pigtails fastened to the computer chassis and henceforth THEY will take the in-and-out instead of the PITA card jacks discussed.

Also, to be fair, the card came with 3 extra chips and a tool to swap them. I lost them over time and at that time I thought I had no use for them. However they apparently can modify the tonality greatly and for a guitar that is always a key issue. Even cable choices change it! If I bring the 3.5mm Rec-Out from my Me80 to the cheaper Xonar card I get bright tones, very nice. But if I bring the same signal via the 1/4" guitar cable and then reduce it at the card (with the Rec-Out jack occupied to have the supposedly identical tone effect) it doesn't even come close.

You're still investing time and money into that thing? For what you're going to get out of it, you probably would have been better off taking it outside, laying it on the pavement, and driving over it a few dozen times.

j_e_f_f_g wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:10 am

You're still investing time and money into that thing? For what you're going to get out of it, you probably would have been better off taking it outside, laying it on the pavement, and driving over it a few dozen times.

no money, but time maybe

Anyway my other (Xonar-AE-pcie) card though it sounds better because it isn't overdriven is still a sound card and sound cards as a whole are ticking me right off. There's a 3.5mm headphone jack and a 3.5mm speakers-front jack. Now, if I want to hear BOTH headset AND speakers I do that how? It seems to me that IF a user plugs both in it's because that user wants to hear both at the same time, pretty basic I would think.

D-Tuned wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:20 am

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There's a 3.5mm headphone jack and a 3.5mm speakers-front jack. Now, if I want to hear BOTH headset AND speakers I do that how? It seems to me that IF a user plugs both in it's because that user wants to hear both at the same time, pretty basic I would think.

The above is such a PITA (and since Leap-15.5 cannot recognize either card anyway) I'm back using the STX-II one with Tumbleweed and all my other distros. To deal with the blaring loudness I turn all volumes waaaay down except the last ones in any chain. I don't know if it is because of this lowering but no matter what distro I use the quality of some Boss Me-80 presets is not even close in my Yamahaha monitors compared to my Sennheiser headphones. Still I'd like to be able to have BOTH putting out the sound with dedicated volume controls, something that isn't likely to come along for a while.