On 11/2/07, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 08:27 -0700, william estrada wrote: > >> Hi group, > >> > >> I wish to thanks all of you for the responses about 'better mics'. > >> I think I need to clarify what I am looking for. > >> > >> I'm writing a suite of programs to be used for a 'Voice Messaging > >> System'. The system will be used during field events where communication > >> from PC to PC will take place. There by the need for inexpensive hardware. > >> We are dealing with cheap HAMs here after all! So supplying everyone with > >> a mic is going to be costly to begin with. A preamp, which is the best > >> solution, will be too costly. So I need to build a software fix. > > I think what you need is to use cheap computer mics, not music-quality > ones, that should only need to plug in to an 1/8th-inch audio in > connection on a sound card. I don't think those kinds of mics require a > preamp of any kind. > Yes, they do. The preamp is built-in to any soundcard with a "mic" input. A sound card mic input will be high impedance (a.k.a. Hi-Z) and have an amplifier (called a preamp in this case) on it in order to bring the signal up to line level (before it hits the ADC). But I agree that is what the OP wants, assuming the computers in question will have mic inputs (I think most motherboards have them integrated these days). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
