[thugmentaliti6]

ayye, im tryin to make a lil recording studio in my room, i bought a mixing board, a condenser mic, etc, but when i hook tha mixer board up to my laptop via tha mic jack, all i get is a static like noise from the speakers/headphones, i thought it might be the mixer board so i returned it an got another one, but still had the same problem, also i i get like a clicking noise from the left speaker/left headphone even when the mixer is not hooked up...so my question is, do i need a new soundcard that is made for recording or is it the input jacks on the computer??

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Are you using the onboard audio or do you have a separate Audio card installed?

[isimaster]

Are you using the onboard audio or do you have a separate Audio card installed?

[thugmentaliti6]

if onboard is the one that it came with origianlly inside it, than yea, onboard...

[isimaster]

Yup, that's what I mean.
Buy an audio card, there are lots of them out there.
Google Recording audio cards.

You'll find a bunch of them.
Pick the one that best suits your needs.

[thugmentaliti6]

iight thanks...so where does the audio card plug into? a usb or?

[isimaster]

It Goes into a PCI Slot.

If you open you case, you'll see some White horizontal Slots.
You can put it in any one of them, normally you'd use the top one.