2 Jan
2007
2 Jan
'07
8:21 p.m.
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 06:34 pm, Brad Fuller wrote:
Yep, I strongly agree. In my always-on practice room there are two
Behringer mixers, mxb1002 and ub802. Mic preamps, headphone ...
good enough for what our group does. Also give me a way to easily
input most of my old audio equipment to the soundblaster live.
Yep, and adapters are available at Radio Shack and other places for
making stereo concectors into line1 and line2 ....
Someone else said that the mic in on the sblive is useless; I've used
it for recording telephone calls using an adapter. Sure isn't hifi but
it does all me to make record of a call rather than take notes while
talking. Takes me a few minutes to setup, but the calls I record are
scheduled technical client calls that may last an hour or more. Real
handy for me.
Marv in Lex. KY Happy New Year
I have plumped
for a Samson C03 and a Behringer minimic 800
preamp (the tube MP sounded like it was somewhat delicate and
fairly unreliable from a breaking down point of view from the
reviews I read..).. For headphones I decided to get some
Audio-Technica ATHM30.. Sounds like they should be adequate to my
requirements..
Great.
OTOH, obtaining a mixer will give you a bit more functionality when
you want to add more external sound outputs (like CD player, etc.) to
your PC. You can get some inexpensive ones that already have mic
preamps and phantom. So fingers crossed it will all work..
One last thing.. I was puzzling how to connect the mono output
from the preamp to the stereo line-in on the sound card. In the
end I bought a dual mono 1/4" to stereo 1/8" jack lead. This
seems most sensible to me, though I was wondering if a straight
stereo-stereo would have worked??
Think of the audio input as 2 channel input, not stereo. Connect line
out of preamp to one of the channel inputs.