Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 07/08/11 10:24, Anthony Anson wrote:
s to be the flatpot because the hi-fi isn't portable, neither is the (full) tower with Lenny on it. Tower's upstairs and hi-fi's down.
The record should be mono (1961), so I'll experiment with the headphone jack and the amp set to mono - output there is on volume control, and I have a suitable cable for that.
Right so does your laptop only have mic in and not Line in..if you only have mic in then it is going to sound rather erm...special...after it has been through all the microphone equalisation. That's assuming you don't wire the connector wrong and send the bias voltage to your preamp and kill it first. Don't connect the ring of the mic connector to anything and I'd probably recommend against using a mono connector in the mic socket.
Mic? I shall not be using the mic socket. Headphone jack on the amp, volume set to zero, then adjusted as necessary.
Plug other end into line-in on Asus.
Play record and monitor volume on Asus using output from the headphone jack and/or vU graph, if progs have one.
Play with reording progs - see which one I prefer (should have vU meter), burn test CD
Check you don't have a laptop with HDAudio as these may have a multimode input socket that can be either mic in or line level in.
I might just carry the big bar^h^h^ba-ba-bra Anne downstairs and do it through the Soundblaster. I know how that works, and had presumed the Asus was similarly endowed...
Thanks for the warning(s)