If you want to do decent recording, the sb live is not for you anyways... SB live has nice playback quality but the recording is VERY poor, the good old sb awe64 is WAY better... I think even the ac97 has better recording quality..
But then again it might be the via chipset compitable probs that caused me this? I have tested both sb live player 5.1 and some other sb live card.. both very poor recording..