Well, this is not going as well as I thought. It seems I’m only recording a mono signal. Some reading of the support area at Creative‘s website and found out I have a SoundBlaster Live! Gamer card (same guts as the Platinum but without the Live! Drive): I also now know what all the connectors are for. Turns out I was using the mic connector, not the line-in. I’m now using an amplifier between the turntable and the card to the line in.
But now if I use that, I get no audio at all. The indicators don’t move in gramofile. It’s not cabling, since it all works through the mic jack. If I listen in headphones while I record, all sounds fine. Of course, I thought that before. I wonder if the turntable is kaput on one channel? I have no way to plug headphones into the receiver (mis-matched connectors), so I’ll dust off my Advents and see what gives,
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