[RWP] Second Sound Card in Reaper, will I have More or Less Problems?

[Indigo]

When I tried to bring the USB from my TC Helicon vocal pedal into 
Reaper, the pedal grabbed onto both the eMu asio driver and the default 
Windows USB audio driver, causing the eMu soundcard to say, no, you 
can't share my exclusive eMu asio driver, so the USB from the pedal 
couldn't work, since it needs both asio and USB  drivers.
Okay, After Realtech for speech went crazy when a jack shorted, I'm 
thinking of installing an Asus Xoner PCIE gaming sound card and get my 
speech from its headphone amplifier, and shut RealTech down completely.
Here's the issue:
The Asus card has its own asio driver.
I feel confident that I can tell the difference between the eMu asio 
driver and the Asus asio driver in Reaper's audio preferences, and I 
think the eMu PCIE soundcard won't get confused between using its own 
dedicated asio driver and the Asus asio driver.
I'm wondering if the TC Helicon vocal pedal will try to steal the Asus's 
asio driver, like it did the eMu asio driver; thus shutting off my speech.
TC Helicon doesn't supply either an asio driver or USB driver of their 
own for their pedal to use.
The TC Helicon techs don't give a blank about what happens in a PC, and 
only use macs, so they're not interested in solving the problem.

Couldn't I install an extra asio driver that isn't being used by 
anything, just waiting there for the TC Helicon pedal to grab onto it?

Maybe I should look for a generic asio driver, install it,  and not 
associate it with any piece of gear, or maybe associate the generic asio 
driver with a dummy piece of hardware gear, so it will always show up in 
Reaper's audio preferences?
I think this should be possible somehow, though I have no experience 
doing it.
Thanks for any tips,
Indi
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