On 9/4/06, Jordan <jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here, we usually plug keyboards and guitars into a Direct Box. Now, this is for a live environment, and doesn't have to do with digital recording, but it converts the 1/4 to an XLR.
The one potential drawback in this case is what Al put as "there should be as few as possible of components in the path so that the sound source goes into digital as soon as possible". It sounds like the XLR inputs on the 1010LT have preamplification, so you might end up with: bass pickup -> preamp (1) -> DI box (2) -> 1010LT mic input (3) i.e three preamps chained. The DI box will change the unbalanced line from the instrument into a balanced line which is regarded as desirable, but I'm not sure how much difference it will make in practice here. But if you find the output of the bass's preamp isn't very high, you might have to go with something like this. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com
