I did this repeatedly a few ago with a cheapo sound blaster, and the only problem I had when the input was too high was that the sound clipped. But it didn't do any damage to the hardware. All I had to do has turn the knob down on the bass, and the sound was actually not bad. Ok, it was on a windows system, but I think the OS is irrelevant here. Ariel ----- Original Message ----- From: "caffeine" <caffeine@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 3:58 PM Subject: [linux-audio-user] plugging a bass guitar in a linux box > Hi everybody, > > I have a bass I'd like to plug in my Debian box. I know lots of people > do it routinely with guitar, but I'm worried about the possible side > effects on my hardware. I know that using a bass on a guitar amp would > blow the thing off, but I don't know if it's just the guitar amp speaker > which is not suited for such frequencies or if it's the electronic which > suffer. > >From what I understand, the "line in" soundcard input shouldn't have any > problem dealing with the bass input, but problems might arise with the > output (ATM this would be my stereo). I don't know enough about sound > processing to be sure my assumptions are right. > > Anybody has any idea/knowledge to share ? > > thanks in advance. > >
