17 Dec
2013
17 Dec
'13
10 a.m.
oh, btw,
@lens
I don't use usb midi card, but I use one usb HID device (a joystick) and
two usb midi controller.
so all my 3 usb ins on my laptop will be occupied in a way or another. but
I don't think it can be problem as joystick and controllers don't need to
be high priority?
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Djého Youn <ydjeho(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the replies.
ok, if it's not the problem of my headphone out but the settings of the
club, then it's all fine.
there were two mixers. Main console and small Yamaha in between. so it's
possible something went wrong...although it's still a mystery for me that
my signal didn't hit the peak on this yamaha mixer, with the max input gain
set.
maybe the mixer was broken?
thanks for the info on art dual tube card. it seems like a good choice if
I buy one anyway.
@Len,
one more question about this card, is it possible to have two stereo outs
while using a one microphone in?
now I'm not sure that I'll buy it for solve the output level problem, but
I probably want to integrate a microphone to use my voice to modulate some
signals.
and in that case, it must work the mono mic input and stereo outs
simultaneously.
one more thing is that I was using my old thinkpad on my live set I've
mentioned, and now I have brand new ideapad.
and I've noticed that ideapad headphone out is much softer than thinkpad,
when I use headphone to watch movies...etc.
so, it is not totally ignorable the output of each laptops. maybe I just
go ahead and buy this art card, in worst case it's not helping,
I can maybe use it as preamp. as it has inserts that can be used as preamp
direct output...as far as what I've understood on their signal diagram.
finally, nobody mentioned on mini-desktop compressor solution that I've
suggested..
http://www.thomann.de/pl/fmr_audio_rnc_1773.htm
somebody has things like that on their sets? do you think it can help?
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote:
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Djého Youn wrote:
thanks for all the answers.
Just in case... are you talking on stage volume or mains volume?
for those who gave advice with main mixer, 'sorry I wasn't that clear.
> but
> mixer's input gain was max. and it was only half on the meter. then
> boosting
> mixer's channel/master only made my sound horribly distorted.
When it is distorted, what does it sound like with headphones? You need
to know where the distortion is actually happening... are you turning your
computer to max and distorting in there? Are you using a DI box into the
mic input? (try it) Or going into a line in... A DI box is more in line
with the inputs of a cheaper mixer. Or an "instrument" input may work
better than line in.
this looks quite nice...as it's preamp AND soundcard...if soundcard
> doesn't
> make my signal louder, then I can use it as preamp..if I got it right.
> http://www.thomann.de/pl/art_usb_dual_tube_pre.htm
> does anyone used this with ubuntu
13.10 on modern laptops? a quick web
> search shows that it *can* work but have no drivers. 'seems that some
> people
> has troubles with it.
I have one and like it. It has been plug and play as it is USB1.1
compatible. It is 16bit at 44.1 or 48k or the s/pdif is 24bit (I use it as
a pre for the s/pdif in my Delta sound card too. It has it's own power
supply so the 5volt USB supply is not an issue. I like the sound better
than any of the builtin audio cards. It works fine with both pulse and
jack. (and ALSA too if it works with the others) I have used it since
ubuntu 12.04. The 3.8 kernels had problems with all USB cards. The one
thing I found was I needed to turn off the internal card in pulse and also
the wifi. The wifi gave me problems with all sound as it grabs too much
time once a minute when turned on and once every 5 seconds turned off until
rebooted with wifi turned off or unloading the wifi kernel module. Then I
could get jack to run with -p64 on my netbook. (I also turn cron off BTW so
that SW update stuff never tries to happen) As with all usb cards... it has
to have it's own USB port, not shared internally or externally by a hub. I
have to use only my right side USB plug and put anything else in the left
side. USB mice are pretty bad at generating interupts. I use the rtirq
script (lowlatency kernel) and set /etc/default/rtirq line with
RTIRQ_NAME_LIST like:
RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="usb3 rtc snd usb i8042"
Where my usb3 is the usb port on it's own irq (my right side plug). This
drops all the other usb ports to lower priority.
Of course the next question is... do you also use a USB midi card?
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