On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:27:16 +0000 Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 05:57:31PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > > On 04/29/2014 03:59 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > > > If you attend the workshop you can bring your laptop > > > and audio interface [*] and have it calibrated against > > > a precision RMS meter so you can later use it to > > > measure other things. > > > > very nice! Will there be pliers and hotglue or similar crazy-glue > > available so that one can permanently fix the dials of the soundcard in > > question? I'm planning to bring a UA-25. > > For a UA25 you'd need a soldering iron to remove the pots > and replace them by fixed resistors :-) > > The older UA5 (which I will bring) has an advantage in having > line inputs (on the back) that bypass the mic preamp. They have > a gain control, but it's just a passive pot which you can safely > turn to maximum. All this was removed on later models to make > place for MIDI connectors... > > Ciao, > I've got an M-Audio 2496 card which has no pots at all. Unfortunately it would be a bit difficult trying to stuff it into a laptop :) Hmmm. I've long since lost the user guide. I wonder how accurate these actually are. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
