In that case, I'll get a 3.5mm to RCA cable. I should have purchased that in the first place. I did manage to find a dual quarter inch toRCA cable, but I think both ends are male which isn't exactly what I want.

That especially holds true for analog mixers. And Jage's right, using adapters is the simplest route. You can pretty much use them for everything except the rca, which you need a uca202 or any other similar soundcard for.

Yes, you can. Jack's statement about needing an RCA capable soundcard is incorrect... if your mixer only uses RCA for the line in, then you can simply buy a 1/8 male to RCA male, which exist, or you can buy a RCA male to RCA male cable and then buy a separate adapter for turning the male RCA in to male 1/8 inch.

That's because the plugin you're running to the soundcard is not an output... so running the cable from your mixer to the card won't make a difference. You have to go from the output of the mixer to the line in port of your soundcard... and in that case, why wouldn't you just plug the victor stream into the line in of your soundcard to begin with? Short answer, the connections you are using would be used if you were sending audio to the mixer from the soundcard.

I found a 3.5mm to RCA cable for about $3. I'm going to get that one. I'll hang onto this 3.5mm to dual 1/4 inch cable and see if I ever need it in the future. I wish this mixer had 1/4 inch connections instead of RCA. It does have what appears to be a 1/4 inch plug on it, but I think that's a mono connectorfor a microphone.

It's a Behringer XENYX 302 USB mixer. Assault is absolutely correct. Don't plug an input into another input. Plug the output of whatever you want to record into the input of your mixer.

Outline a complete list of steps again for what you're doing, because you're losing me.. you said, and I quote...

Plugged the two rca's into the mixer's rca inputs, plugged a 1/8in patch cable into the rca adapter, and plugged the other end of the 1/8in cable to the line-in port of my c-media usb soundcard. Plugged a victor reader stream into channel 1 via a 1/8 to 1/4 audio adapter.

You plugged one end of your RCA cables into the mixer's RCA line ins, and then plugged the other end into the line in of your soundcard... that will not give you sound to your card. You have to connect the outputs of the mixer to the soundcard. Does the mixer not have headphone monitoring? Then you cna confirm what I'm saying by running the victor stream and then playing it just through headphones. Line ins plugged into other line ins don't give you anything, which, unless you are wording something oddly, appears to be what you're doing.

You should be using the RCA ins for the victor stream... not the mic input. The high impedence from the mic preamp, and the fact that it's not a line level channel is probably what's causing the buzzing. Also, make sure what you are connecting to the line in port of your soundcard is an output connection, not an input, as I've said many times. you said you're connecting the RCA jacks to the soundcard, but make sure they are outputs. If you really have to connect to one of the main mic inputs, make sure the gain is turned way down on the preamp.

You're missing what I'm saying... you said you're running a cable from the RCA on the mixer to the line in on the soundcard. Which RCA are you running it from, the input pair, or the output pair? That makes a huge difference. And you said the patch cable is running from the RCA on the mixer to the line in of the mixer... I'm hoping that was just a mistype.

You just said there are two pairs of RCA jacks? The CD / tape input is what you should be plugging the victor stream into, and the line in on the soundcard should be connected to the main mix out. Pay attention to what the jack is called... if it's called an input, you won't get any sound by connecting it to something else. the name says it.. input means something that is going into the mixer. Not out.

I'm plugging the stream into the bottom pair of rca jacks, and the route to the line-in jack on my soundcard goes from the third jack on the top row to the line-in on my soundcard. And it should be pointed out that the usb soundcard is apparently supposed to plug into the rca jacks according to a site. A lot of these sites are from the perspective of you buying this rig as part of a kit, which I didn't, just got the rig itself, nothing more, nothing less, and got the 1/8 to 1/4 adapters separately.