Recording line-in with Soundblaster Play!3

[inertia]

I purchased a Soundblaster Play!3 USB interface for use with my PC since the on-board sound suffers a lot of interface from the internals of the computer and this interface had good reviews regarding the playback quality for the price.

I want to hook up my record player and make recordings in Reaper but the input is detected as a microphone input by Windows 10 and sounds terrible. I am not even sure there's proper stereo separation, despite it being a stereo input.

I downloaded the proper software from the Creative site but there's no options there that help.

I am using the on-board line in, in the meantime. It sounds good though and doesn't suffer any interference like the output channels did so I am almost satisfied but would have preferred to use the Play!3 for both recording and playback.

Is there anyway to get the mic-in working as a line-in?

[domzy]

Originally Posted by inertia

Is there anyway to get the mic-in working as a line-in?

i don't think so

[inertia]

Thanks for finding that. That's a bummer. I can live with the solution I have now though. It's working ok.