11 Jul
2010
11 Jul
'10
2:44 a.m.
Not sure about OP. My purposes are live performance and
playing-to-hard-drive. Recording of outside sources in studio quality
at a low budget, as far as I know, does not exist in stock parts. But
if I had to try, I would probably use a sound card with RCAs and a box
(bought or built) to convert two RCAs to two XLRs with careful
protection. RCAs are coax in design and were originally designed for
coax cables, which gives interesting possibilities.
Obviously, if my budget weren't that low, and knowing what I know now, I
would probably do Firewire, or USB3 if it exists, or X factor.
One product I have been hoping for for a while now, is microphones with
wireless-N built in, and related, simple audio-to-wifi boxes. The
thought is that these mikes and a2wifi devices would function as
streaming audio servers, which any PC on the wifi network could latch
onto and use as an audio channel. By doing this, we could build a
zero-wire input mix! The only catch is latency, I'm not sure if that
could be done.
J.E.B.
On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 14:10 -1000, david wrote:
Yah, didn't say they were. I think the OP was
talking about a system to
use performing live, not recording.
Harry Van Haaren wrote:
Hey all,
Just to be dead clear: The RCA jack is NOT a balanced connection, and is
therefore
more susceptible to Radio Frequence interference. I'm not sure how
serious the OP
is about audio recording, but it is something to keep in mind.
Cheers, -Harry
PS: Info on differences of balanced / unbalanced stuff (from Sound on
Sound):
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan02/articles/faq0102.asp#Anchor-11022
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:07 AM, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
<mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com>> wrote:
AudioPhile 2496 has RCA jacks, works very very well with Linux.
Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
e. I did a large number of Google searches. Found zero. This
didn't make sense to me, because I had just visited a local
gamer-oriented PC store, and had seen an under-the-TV PC box
shaped
like a thick VCR which had RCA jacks for audio. So I decided
that I
had to go beyond Google. I first checked the Creative Labs web
site's full line, and although RCA jacks weren't in any
description
(!), they were visible (!!!!) in two of the
pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. So I knew they existed. As with most
things Creative Labs which are not cheapies, the ones I found
there
were rather expensive. So I did some research using past
reports on
Linux Audio lists, found a make appearing to do very well
(AudioTrak), found a model with RCA jacks using the
photographs of
cards, found a very good supplier (floridamusicco.com
<http://floridamusicco.com>) of my chosen
card (AudioTrak Prodigy HD2), put it in, and found that it works
beautifully. Not only does it work beautifully, but the
quality of
its electronics are visibly extraordinary. I have been
working off
and on in hardware since 1981, and this card reminds me of
some of
the real beauties made years ago. DIP sockets for op-amps.
Thick
sturdy board, white in color to expose any issues. Big strong
capacitors, no cheapies. And the price is very good
considering its
capability. The card can do 192 kbps :-) I don't use it at more
than 96 kbps, and usually 48 kbps, because more takes up CPU!