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

[James Stone]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:49 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 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).
>
> If you can, just skip the DI and plug the guitar straight into the sound
> card's line-in.

I've tried that before, but (at least with an electric (non-bass)),
the sound was rather woolly and lacking in treble - I though due to
the mix of Hi-Z and line level input.

James