On 02/12/2012 03:20 PM, jonetsu wrote: > but also... what about your mixer? >> a trabant shipped with ferrari engine would not do the job as you >> expect :-) > Interesting. My answer is: none. The microphone cable would go to a > passive direct box (*) I got some time ago and the output of the box > then goes into the M-Audio 1010LT card and fed to Ardour. I do not see > at the moment why there would be an external mixer in there. > > (*) http://www.radialeng.com/re-jdi.htm Well, get rid of the direct box, for one thing. You only need a direct box to convert a signal to a mic level, balanced signal of the proper impedance to be fed into a mic input. The output of a microphone is already a balanced, mic level signal of the proper impedance. -- --- http://lateralforce.no-ip.org My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio, mixing, equipment, etc, is at: http://audioandmore.wordpress.com Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.' - [Friedrich Nietzsche] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user