On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, James Stone wrote: > >> I have a DI box which has an XLR balanced output. I want to connect it >> to my cheapo sound card (SBLive) through the (stereo) line in. Is this >> possible? What would be the best way? Would a mono jack:XLR converter >> be OK? > > Are you wanting to convert to an unbalanced signal in hardware (a cheap > balan/transformer/DI) or in software (DSP code to combine L and R to produce > a mono stream) ?? > I guess in hardware? Thinking more about it, do I need to plug the DI out into a preamp before it goes into the line in for the soundcard? (the instrument is a bass guitar unamplified). James _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
