Audio system to computer

[Austin]

On 10/05/2003 06:05:09 PM, James Knott wrote:
> 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.

Oops.  I didn't notice that he said line out of an AMP.  I just assumed he  
meant line out of a turntable, which is typically below line-level.
Sorry,
Austin
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