Audio system to computer

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 5 22:05:09 UTC 2003


Austin wrote:
> On 10/05/2003 04:40:16 PM, Merv Curley wrote:
> 
>> I have taken the line-out of my amp and fed it to the line-in of the 
>> audio
>> card and I wasn't surprised at the result.  Now if I can just get rid of
>> the hum,  ground loop?,  I could get started.
> 
> 
> The obvious answer would be to use a mixer with a ground post as your 
> preamp  and ground loop.  Even cheap radio shack mixers with phono 
> inputs have ground  posts.  It would probably also have a better preamp 
> than your sound card  would.
> 
> I highly recommend this route.

The line out of an amp, should have more than enough signal to drive a 
sound card.  Adding gain, where not needed may result in distortion.



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