Stereo mic into laptop

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I just bought a Toshiba Satellite A70 laptop computer and discovered to my chagrin
that it has only a mono input jack for sound. This means that the sort of recording
I've done in the past with older computers is impossible, unless I want to be
restricted to mono. Grrrr. So I went back to the shop and they said I had to get a
new sound card for that purpose, for stereo. They recommended and I bought a Sound
Blaster Audigy 2xs. What did I find? Ahh, it too has only a mono input. In fact,
when I phoned the company, I was told that all the SoundBlaster products have
mono-only jacks. Ikes, have we returned to 1953?

Anyone got any simple suggestions? I interview people for my research. I want to be
able to (1) record by mic directly to my computer (using SoundForge to capture it);
and (2) copy recordings I have made on my older minidisc recorder (pre-Hi-MD) to my
computer for burning to CD. This used to be easy on older computers.

Philip Hiscock

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"Philip Hiscock" <philip@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote in message
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> I just bought a Toshiba Satellite A70 laptop computer and discovered
> to my chagrin that it has only a mono input jack for sound. This
> means that the sort of recording I've done in the past with older
> computers is impossible, unless I want to be restricted to mono.
> Grrrr. So I went back to the shop and they said I had to get a new
> sound card for that purpose, for stereo. They recommended and I
> bought a Sound Blaster Audigy 2xs. What did I find? Ahh, it too has
> only a mono input. In fact, when I phoned the company, I was told
> that all the SoundBlaster products have mono-only jacks. Ikes, have
> we returned to 1953?
>
> Anyone got any simple suggestions? I interview people for my
> research. I want to be able to (1) record by mic directly to my
> computer (using SoundForge to capture it); and (2) copy recordings I
> have made on my older minidisc recorder (pre-Hi-MD) to my computer
> for burning to CD. This used to be easy on older computers.


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Trevor de Clercq <declerct@REMOVETHISnewschool.edu> wrote:

>Is this too expensive?
>
>http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Transit-main.html

The Transit does not have a mic pre. Line in and digital optical in
only.

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