26 Oct
2007
26 Oct
'07
11:09 a.m.
Hi
I had the same problem a while back, I solved the problem with a unit
made by M-Audio called the Ozone which is a small midi keyboard with
audio card built in, it connects using usb which seems to work with some
distro's using madfu.
The features which made it useful to me where the guitar preamp and mic
preamp with phantom power so you can use a condenser microphone to
record vocals / acoustic instruments, also it has a switch that passes
the input strait to the output so even it you can't get the USB working
you can feed the pre-amped guitar/mic to the input of your internal
sound card, the midi keyboard also has a standard din output too so that
can be connected to your sound cards midi in, and the 8 control knobs
output controller info (very useful for softsynths), I find it very
useful for general music production, there is model with a larger
keyboard and 2 stereo in/outs called the Ozonic, but this uses firewire
and I think that really is a pain to get working with Linux.
The list price when I got my Ozone was about £160 but I think you can
get one for about £100 now.
To sum it up what I needed was
1. guitar preamp,
2. XLR mic input,
3 midi keyboard,
4. rotary midi controllers,
and the Ozone had all these!
I hope that info was of some help
Graham
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MAudioOzone-main.html
http://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 13:18 +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Sunday 21 October 2007 21:03:42 Leslie P. Polzer
wrote:
I use a homebrew fuzzbox to adapt instrument levels to line levels. I can set
it clean with a lot of gain, and get fairly good quality from it. Of course,
giving it *lots* of gain and going all crunchy and distorted tends to work
well for me too...
Gordon
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Don't
do that. You want a box with an instrument input and a line
output. I second Dave's suggestion for an M-Audio AudioBuddy. I have
one and it works great (I've seen them as low as $60US). It's a
small, cheap, two-channel mic-pre with instrument (a.k.a. DI) inputs
and line outputs (balanced, which should still work fine with the SB).
Many single-channel mic pres also have instrument/DI inputs, like
those ART tube units (as low as $30US).
A regular DI with output a low impedance mic level signal, which would
still not give you the output signal you want.
I bought a distortion pedal -- hope it'll do the job.