[linux-audio-user] Recording Level using Audacity and a Multiface card

[plutek]

On Fri, 12 May 2006 22:14:41 +1000
"D. Sen" <dsen at homemail.com> wrote:

> plutek wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 May 2006 21:27:42 +1000
> > "D. Sen" <dsen at homemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> ...microphone connected into the analogue input of an 
> >> RME multiface card
> > 
> > not good practice; multiface inputs are at line level.
> > you need a microphone preamp between the mic and the multiface.
> > 
> There is circuitry between the micrphone and the multiface to ensure 
> line-level outputs.

ok... i can only question the design of that circuitry, whatever it is, because i have no trouble getting full digital levels on my multiface when fed by any of my microphones and preamps, from a 94dB acoustic source.


.pltk.