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5. Use the screw removed earlier from the protective backplate to attach the
metal bracket at the back of the Darla24 card to the computer’s rear panel.
6. Replace the computer’s cover and secure it. Reattach its power supply
cord and reconnect any peripherals that you may have removed prior to
beginning the Darla24 installation.
7. Locate the Darla24 audio breakout box and the 25-pin audio connector
cable. Place the breakout box near your computer in a convenient location
on a level surface. Plug one end of the cable into the 25-pin connector on
the Darla24 card that now protrudes through the back panel of your
computer, and secure the cable using the built-in screws located on both
sides of the connector. Attach the other end of the cable to the rear of the
audio breakout box and fasten the cable securely with the screws.
NOTE: The cable included with your Darla24 system is a
shielded audio cable that has been custom manufactured to
exacting standards. Use of any other cable, such as a
computer printer cable, will result in unacceptably high
crosstalk and noise, thereby substantially reducing the
system’s overall audio quality. If longer cable lengths are
required, the correct approach is to extend the audio cables
between the Darla24 breakout box and your
mixer/amplifier rather than the cable between the breakout
box and the PCI card.
8. You can now attach external audio devices to the breakout box. Darla24
can accommodate two analog input signals and can generate eight
independent analog output signals.
All of the analog inputs and outputs on Darla24 are simultaneously active,
allowing you to record up to two channels of audio while playing back eight
channels.