Two sound cards

[bernie89]

Can I use two sound cards in one PC? I want to record one audio stream and listen to another simultaneously. I'd be using two sound systems.

[perkster]

i might be wrong but i think more than 1 conflicts, i kwow to get a soundcard to work you often have to disable the onboard audio in BIOS.

however there is probably a soundcard available that can do what you want in one card.

[XenaWP]

What are the system specs?

Some newer mobo's can handle 2 distinct audio streams simultaneously.

[That Loaded Bloke]

you can do it.

First thing to check is ASIO compatibility of a sound card.
If you sound card is ASIO compatible and there is ASIO driver for it (google "asio4all") you might not even need second sound card.

Having said that I use a MAckie mixer via firewire that uses Onyx Asio driver and at the same time I use E-Mu 1616 soundcard connected via PCMCIA for hardware effects and monitoring.
I do not know how it works but it works...

But for simple A channel recording with B channel playback you should be okay with any ASIO sound card