On Sunday 21 October 2007 21:03:42 Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > > Don't do that. You want a box with an instrument input and a line > > output. I second Dave's suggestion for an M-Audio AudioBuddy. I have > > one and it works great (I've seen them as low as $60US). It's a > > small, cheap, two-channel mic-pre with instrument (a.k.a. DI) inputs > > and line outputs (balanced, which should still work fine with the SB). > > > > Many single-channel mic pres also have instrument/DI inputs, like > > those ART tube units (as low as $30US). > > > > A regular DI with output a low impedance mic level signal, which would > > still not give you the output signal you want. > > I bought a distortion pedal -- hope it'll do the job. I use a homebrew fuzzbox to adapt instrument levels to line levels. I can set it clean with a lot of gain, and get fairly good quality from it. Of course, giving it *lots* of gain and going all crunchy and distorted tends to work well for me too... Gordon _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
