Audacity/ Laptop question

[mchchef1]

I think/ hope this is the right forum?

I have been doing some recording with audacity.

Gibson J-160E into Vox VBM1 into laptop works great. This amp has a "recording/headphones" outjack

Soooo.. I tried with my 80w fender twin which has only "external speaker" output

 

Result: no sound from my laptop, itunes, mediaplayer, youtube, audacity, etc.

Headphone jack no good either tried 3 pairs of head phones to make sure it was not a bad set.

 

My hope. There is some sort of "circuit breaker"/ fuse that was tripped instead of frying my audio?

 

Dell Inspiron1500 with windows vista.

 

The usual diagnostic/ speaker check shows the speakers are working properly, they are not.

I have checked mutes and volume levels I know of on these programs.

 

Any help would be greatly appriciated!!

Thanks in advance

Mike

[In a little rowboat]

If i am reading the post correctly, you went from the external (powered) jack on the amp into the input on your laptop...?? BAD!

 

First, check all of your drivers...although i suspect they will checkout...

 

If this is the case, you might have done some serious damage to the soundcard in the computer...the ext speaker jack is designed to push a cabinet, and the laptops input jack is designed only for a line level signal...you might have fried the speakers in the laptop, but i suspect the soundcard would be damaged before even getting to the small speakers

 

I cant really cant come up with anymore theories without actually seeing the laptop...i suspect you are in trouble with it...

[deepseacatfish]

I hate to say it, but yeah, I think you may have fried some (soundcard?) components with that high signal.

[a.miller]

Be careful too, as you can fry a tube amp by not having a speaker hooked to it of the correct impedance.

[mchchef1]

Thanks for all the timely advice. Got it to my guy this morning/ sound card blown. I had expected much worse/ now the question which usb/replacement card do I go with?

Thanks again

Mike