Soundcard home recording question

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"B. Oogey" wrote ...
> Thanks for putting up with this amateur question. Will a new
> sound card by itself make a better home recording or will I need
> a better mixer as well? My cheap radio shack mixer doesn't even
> seem have an effect on the basic volume levels.

Can you expand on that? By itself it doesn't seem to make any sense.
Do you mean that you can plug your mics directly into your computer
(bypassing the mixer) and get the same recording levels?

Or is your computer sound device acting like some SoundBlaster
products that seem to have a built-in "limiter"?

> I am using good quality condenser microphones. I am using
> the onboard sound (5.1 channel) from my Asus A7v8x-x MB
> currently.

Disclosing also exactly what microphone(s) and mixer you are
using would be very very helpful. Otherwise we will have to
guess and that will significantly diminish any value to you. It
would also help to know what you are recording and what you
are doing with the recordings.