I suspect that someone switched on the pad on the DI, or on the mixer itself. Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:48:32 +0100 >Djého Youn <ydjeho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> for those who gave advice with main mixer, 'sorry I wasn't that clear. but >> mixer's input gain was max. and it was only half on the meter. then >> boosting mixer's channel/master only made my sound horribly distorted. > >Headphoune out is a different impedance than line out, it's really easy >to overload a line input. I'm a little suspicious of the level into the >main mixer though; you should have had more than enough signal for the board. >I suspect there was some user error at the mixer. > >> this looks quite nice...as it's preamp AND soundcard...if soundcard doesn't >> make my signal louder, then I can use it as preamp..if I got it right. >> http://www.thomann.de/pl/art_usb_dual_tube_pre.htm >> >> does anyone used this with ubuntu 13.10 on modern laptops? > >I use an ART DualPre (not the tube model) with ArchLinux regularly with >no issues at all. It worked fine when I used Fedora as well but I >switched to Arch a while back and havent tested it in a while. There >shouldn't be any driver issues, it follows the USB audio interface spec >pretty well. > >The ART will give a much better signal, and the line outs use balanced 1/4" >TRS connectors so you can get a quieter signal if you use the appropriate >patch cables. > >Good luck! > >-- >====================================================================== > Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa >_______________________________________________ >Linux-audio-user mailing list >Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
