On 28 Nov 2007 at 7:51, David Haggett murmured decisively:
> First Question
>
> It (the DMX 6Fire) has a 6.3mm (i.e. 1/4 inch) mono microphone input with
> built-in pre-amp which the manual claims to be good for a condenser mic. I
> typically plug my electric guitar into this, but is quite a fine balancing
> act between guitar and pre-amp volume controls to avoid clipping.
>
> Should I have something in the chain to match impedance, or is the clipping
> just because my pickup signal is too high? I can eliminate it by turning the
> guitar or the pre-amp down but this can lose tone.
yes, DI box. your choice of active or passive, powered or pure
transformer, or variations of the above. but apart from the clipping you
will get some weird frequency response changes from the impedance
mismatch.
> Second Question
>
> The mic input feeds to Alsa PCM Inputs 5 and 6, but of course is just 2
> identical streams. I have been recording the guitar to a stereo track using
> both channels but wondered whether there was any benefit in doing this, or
> whether it would be better:
> * take a single input and split it to a stereo track?
> * take a single input and record it as a mono track?
I would do this. less noise, less disk space, less load reading it back
for playback (makes a difference on my marginal harddrive setup, may not
affect everyone)
> * take a single input and feed it to a mono-stereo plugin and record
> it as a stereo track?
-- David http://iwr.ru.ac.za/~iwdf/ If you receive email saying "Send this to everyone you know", PLEASE pretend you don't know me. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Wed Nov 28 12:15:02 2007
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