By Sreekumar Raghavan
If you love hearing music, you can do so while working on your computer or even while reading and doing household chores. Tired of listening to music from Youtube using coventional headphones which was causing pain on my ears, pulled it out from the jack. Why not use the single jack head phone and connect it to green audio jack on the front of your PC?
To listen to or record music you needn't be a Oscar award winning Resul Pookutty or for that matter know anything about acoustics or physics. I tried it out with amazing results. All you need is a Realtek Audio and desire to listen to some good music. If you are listening to your favourite classical Hindi song of Kishore Kumar you could perhaps opt for a 'room' atmosphere and select 'bass' or 'party' mood appropriate for the song. If you are listening to a rock or jazz, you have the option of 'auditorium' or concert hall and 'Rock' and 'Pop' settings.
For Chitti Babu's 'Temple Bells', rendering on Veena: 'Auditorium' and 'Classical' effect were just right while a Rafi melody was more melodious with a 'soft' and Rooom setting. Salil da's Chemmeen hits can have the appropriate 'sea' effect created in RealTek.
If you want to feel like Pookutty moving some tabs up and down, you have that too: Wave, S/W Synth, Front and Rear settings which can be adjusted to suit your taste.If you are recording with a micro phone, you have the option to adjust line, CD, microphone volume and do some + and - with stereo mixing.
When you do these with the basic features of RealTek, you learn what digitisation can do to music- both vocal and instrumental. Then you understand even an average singer's rendering can be made powerful at the backend with some intelligent technology.
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