hello,

thanks for all the answers.
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.
it seems that getting soundcard is a good option as I understand that clemen's explanation on headphone jack out problem. (btw, I never, ever saw a lap top computer with line out. does it really exist or you mean a desktop pc with some tweaks?)

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.

 


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 17:13 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:21:30PM +0100, Djého Youn wrote:
>
> > I was using just headphone jack out from my laptop, and it hasn't been a
> > problem...I did plenty of gigs like that and it worked out pretty well. but
> > with this huge system, my max output didn't even hit the half of level
> > meter on the main mixer....as I'm obsessed with being loud, I was ashamed
> > and I need a solution.
>
> Increase the gain on the main mixer.

IOW the input potentiometers of the mixing console, usually the first
potentiometer on top of a mixing console's channel is for adjusting the
input signal. This adjustments are independent to the channel's and
sum's faders.

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