8 Dec
2010
8 Dec
'10
7:09 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:01:40 +0000
James Stone <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Gabriel M.
Beddingfield
<gabrbedd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A guitar pickup sends out around 20 - 50 mV and wants to see between 470k and
1M. A sound card line input is typically abut 300mV and 10 - 47k so rather a
mismatch!
A DI box might not help much unless it specifically has a high impedance
input and has around 20dB of gain.
Sometimes you can cheat by putting a resistor (470k - 1M) in series with a
microphone input, but it will tend to be rather noisy.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, James Stone wrote:
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 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.