On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 06:09:20PM +0000, Folderol wrote: > A guitar pickup sends out around 20 - 50 mV and wants to see between 470k and > 1M. A sound card line input is typically abut 300mV and 10 - 47k so rather a > mismatch! > > A DI box might not help much unless it specifically has a high impedance > input and has around 20dB of gain. DI boxes are supposed to have such high input impedance. 20 to 50 mv into a nominal -10dBm consumer type line input feeding a 24-bit converter could work fine without extra gain. You may need some extra 'digital gain' if the level of the instrument needs to be quite high in the mix. Ardour doesn't provide 'input gain', and its fader has only 6dB positive gain, but an amp or compressor plugin will do the trick. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
