[LAU] Audio measurement at LAC 2014

[Will Godfrey]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:27:16 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 05:57:31PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> > On 04/29/2014 03:59 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > 
> > > If you attend the workshop you can bring your laptop
> > > and audio interface [*] and have it calibrated against
> > > a precision RMS meter so you can later use it to
> > > measure other things. 
> > 
> > very nice! Will there be pliers and hotglue or similar crazy-glue
> > available so that one can permanently fix the dials of the soundcard in
> > question? I'm planning to bring a UA-25.
> 
> For a UA25 you'd need a soldering iron to remove the pots
> and replace them by fixed resistors :-)
> 
> The older UA5 (which I will bring) has an advantage in having
> line inputs (on the back) that bypass the mic preamp. They have
> a gain control, but it's just a passive pot which you can safely
> turn to maximum. All this was removed on later models to make
> place for MIDI connectors...
> 
> Ciao,
> 

I've got an M-Audio 2496 card which has no pots at all. Unfortunately it
would be a bit difficult trying to stuff it into a laptop :)

Hmmm. I've long since lost the user guide. I wonder how accurate these
actually are.

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