[LAU] OT(ish): Connecting balanced out to line in

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, James Stone wrote:

> I have a DI box which has an XLR balanced output. I want to connect it
> to my cheapo sound card (SBLive) through the (stereo) line in. Is this
> possible? What would be the best way? Would a mono jack:XLR converter
> be OK?

Are you wanting to convert to an unbalanced signal in 
hardware (a cheap balan/transformer/DI) or in software (DSP 
code to combine L and R to produce a mono stream) ??

-gabriel