[LAU] Mic for accoustic (bass) guitar

[Al Thompson]

On 02/12/2012 03:20 PM, jonetsu wrote:
> but also... what about your mixer?
>> a trabant shipped with ferrari engine would not do the job as you
>> expect :-)
> Interesting.  My answer is: none.  The microphone cable would go to a
> passive direct box (*) I got some time ago and the output of the box
> then goes into the M-Audio 1010LT card and fed to Ardour.  I do not see
> at the moment why there would be an external mixer in there.
>
> (*) http://www.radialeng.com/re-jdi.htm

Well, get rid of the direct box, for one thing.  You only need a direct
box to convert a signal to a mic level, balanced signal of the proper
impedance to be fed into a mic input.  The output of a microphone is
already a balanced, mic level signal of the proper impedance. 



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