6Monitoring button Click this button to monitor and loopback recording audio to outputs (PC speakers). Therefore, the recording volume will influence the monitoring signals from speaker outputs.

The audio will be mixed into the streams you are playing out from your PC and all DSP effects will be applied to the source, too. A typical benefit is to apply Dolby Pro-Logic

IIx 7.1-ch spreading for your TV audio, CD, MP3, or stereo game console audio from Wii, Xbox, PS2/PS3/PSP, etc. To apply Dolby Virtual Speaker is suitable for two-speaker environment.

NOTE: When the monitoring function is enabled, audio output from HDMI output is disabled.

7Source / path name This shows the source name for each volume control slider, including:

 

 

S/PDIF-In: S/PDIF digital input source

 

 

Mix: Stereo Mix which will record MIC, AUX, and digital

 

 

WAVE audio you are playing on PC

 

 

Aux: recording from Aux-In for typically TV-tuner card audio

 

 

or other sound sources

 

 

Line-In: recording from Line-in jack for external audio

 

 

devices

 

 

WAVE: recording from digital wave audio you are playing on

 

 

PC (Note: Windows Vista doesn’t support WAVE

 

 

recording.)

8

Reset

Click to reset all volume controls to the default settings.

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