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From: Rui Maciel on 20 Apr 2010 06:36 Robert Riches wrote: >> >> It is not a *line-level* input. Connecting a line-level signal to a mic >> input is not a good thing, wrong signal levels and impedence. > > So, you go to your local Radio Shack or similar retailer, buy an > attenuating adapter, and it just works. If nobody sells an > attenuating adapter any more, you buy a couple of connectors and > a few resistors and build one. Do you actually believe that that is a reasonable suggestion? Rui Maciel
From: Grant Edwards on 20 Apr 2010 09:43 On 2010-04-20, Rui Maciel <rui.maciel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Robert Riches wrote: > >>> >>> It is not a *line-level* input. Connecting a line-level signal to a mic >>> input is not a good thing, wrong signal levels and impedence. >> >> So, you go to your local Radio Shack or similar retailer, buy an >> attenuating adapter, and it just works. If nobody sells an >> attenuating adapter any more, you buy a couple of connectors and >> a few resistors and build one. > > Do you actually believe that that is a reasonable suggestion? Yes. You could have done it in less time that you spent posting in this thread. And you would have learned something. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! We have DIFFERENT at amounts of HAIR -- gmail.com
From: Harald Meyer on 20 Apr 2010 10:19 Dan C wrote: [snipped] Hey folks, would you *please* calm down? In his very first post he used the magic word "amp", and later he wrote he owns a POD x3. Not everybody in the general Linux groups knows what this is, and Rui, please consider this. "amp" = Musicans slang for instrument amplifiers. POD x3 = Small battery powered DSP device that models various amps. Using the microphone input of a notebook is not an option for him, but he should have said that in advance and in a different voice. Now please use another tone, everybody. Harald
From: Harold Stevens on 20 Apr 2010 12:46 In <hqkd4m$d4g$2(a)news.eternal-september.org> Harald Meyer: [Snip...] > Hey folks, would you *please* calm down? "Rui" seems to have a history of deliberately ignoring suggestions for more info, and very rarely following up with anything actually useful. FWIW: I calmly plonk (yet another) circular thread (xlate: troll). JMO; YMMV... -- Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS * Pardon any bogus email addresses (wookie) in place for spambots. Really, it's (wyrd) at airmail, dotted with net. DO NOT SPAM IT. I toss GoogleGroup (http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/).
From: unruh on 20 Apr 2010 15:15
On 2010-04-20, Harald Meyer <meyersharald(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > unruh wrote: >> On 2010-04-20, Harald Meyer <meyersharald(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>> "amp" = Musicans slang for instrument amplifiers. >> >> No. If he is a musician, then this may be what is referred to, but "amp" >> means "amplifier" or any type. And most amps have a volume dial whic >> reduces the output level. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall_amp.jpg > >>> POD x3 = Small battery powered DSP device that models various amps. >> >> I certainly have no idea what this is, even now. > > http://line6.com/podx3/ > >>> Using the microphone input of a notebook is not an option for him, but he >> >> Still trying to figure out why that is "not an option". > > Their noise level is too high, especially after some 30 dB dynamic > compression by amp modeling software. The dynamic range of the a good mic input is probably at least 70dB. That noise level would surely get lost in all the noise caused by the compression. Again, we have no idea what he really wants, he has still refused to tell us. If he wants really top quality recording with minimum noise level, then I agree he wants line level input, and a really good preamp, and 24 bit recording soundcard. If he wants to record his kids first words, or the output to his synthesizer, he may not need that at all and attenuation into the mic input might be fine. Until he tells us what he really needs he is going to continue to get lousy advice, and is going to turn off anyone who might have good advice for him. |