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

[James Stone]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
<gabrbedd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, James Stone wrote:
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>> 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) ??
>

I guess in hardware?

Thinking more about it, do I need to plug the DI out into a preamp
before it goes into the line in for the soundcard? (the instrument is
a bass guitar unamplified).

James