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What would happen if I plug in a mono/TS phone jack into a balanced output socket that requires a TRS phone jack?
These sockets and plugs are designed to work in exactly this way. When you plug a 'TS' plug into a TRS balanced jack socket, the "ring and sleeve" are bridged. This is exactly the correct way to ...
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Difference between microphone and line in inputs?
Line in is an audio input normally around 150mv line sensitivity and can be used for devices such as tape players,cd players,mp3 players etc.
It cannot be used as a microphone input as you would ...
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Input levels (mic/inst/line) and DI-Box
To which input should I insert both an active di-box with a passive
guitar and a passive dibox with an active guitar?
MIC input without phantom power (unless the active DI box is powered by phantom ...
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What is the difference between headphone jack and line out on Zoom H5 Audio Recorder?
The H5 has an option to have the DB cut down from the line out out to the Camera, you can find this in the manual or on the Zoom YouTube channel for the H5
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What is the difference between headphone jack and line out on Zoom H5 Audio Recorder?
It's not a good idea, because the levels on both the line output and the headphone output are much too high for the camera mic input. If you were to turn the volume down on the headphone output, you'...
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Why we require high voltage swing at the output of line drivers?
Headroom, mainly. Your peak voltage is 1.736 volt only when you have a sine wave signal of exactly +4 dBu (0VU on professional equipment). That never happens in the real world.. 0 on the meters is ...
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Understanding various input lines types for mixing?
Here's a great summary of the different signal levels:
Mic level is the lowest, or weakest, level signal of the four and requires a preamplifier to bring it up to Line level.
Instrument level ...
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Converting a 3.5in mic input to line level portably
Most microphones output about 0.0006 volts while line level is about 1 volt or 1.23
The device you want is a microphone preamp to bring the microphone signal up to Line level. If you get one with 1/4"...
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Does a non-powered mixer have the same level of output regardless of number of inputs used?
There seems to be some essential misunderstanding of gain staging here.
The output is the sum of the inputs, plus or minus the fader gains.
8 ins, 2 outs with all the faders pushed to the max will ...
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Sound distortion from PA to line in on PC
In my experience this is a hardware issue. The sound is when the input hardware of the PC getting too hot signal and clipping. The first step to try then is to decrease the "gain" of the ...
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Is my synthesizer too quiet?
Sounds like your signal is too low.
This can come, e.g. from impedance mismatch (i.e. output and input aer a bad couple).
Sometimes using the headphone output helps.
A preamp inserted might help. ...
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Sending line-level signal to two devices
I suggest you put some resistors here just to be on the safe side, like this:
L_IN1<------|2k|------+------<L_OUT
L_IN2<------|2k|------+
R_IN1<------|2k|------+------<R_OUT
R_IN2<--...
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Mixer XLR out vs Line out
The biggest and most relevant difference is that one uses an XLR connector and the other uses a 1/4” TRS connector.
This is helpful because you might want to plug the outputs into something that has ...
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Guitar pedals + sound card: What's wrong with the combination?
A recommended setup would include impedance matching and voltage matching (line/mic) there’s not a risk of damage but for cleaner recording and less noise you should use direct boxes between XLR and ...
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Guitar pedals + sound card: What's wrong with the combination?
It will not cause any damage to your pedals - as you can see from that video, you can pop effects in there quite happily as an FX loop.
Having delay or reverb in their own effects loop isn't ...
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10-15 dB lower input audio level on audio interface than output level on source
One meter is displaying dBV and the other is showing dBFS. which is what was suspected by Hobbes. Typical line level for dBFS is going to be between -18 and -12. So no big deal like audionuma said. It ...
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Can the Line-in jack be used for an external microphone?
Yes, you can use an external microphone preamplifier, these convert the mic signal to line level.
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Can a balanced audio connection be maintained with one end unbalanced?
Any unbalanced connection in a configuration such as this will unbalance the entire connection. The way to make this work is to connect the elements in the following way:
Ground (Piano) ----- [ ...
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How do I generate a 0 dBFS sine-wave in SoX? (output clipped warning)
Check out the hexdump of the file you created.
When you do, you will realise that there are 7FFF values in the file that correspond to your sample peaks.
But, I'm going to say that you also have ...
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Line inputs and sound quality
you will never get the finger sound goodness in DI, why not use stereo technique, DI on left and Mic on right and blend it together for both high detail mic sound and clean DI sound. Most pro do it ...
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Do some dedicated sound cards have a "stronger" line-out signal than on-board chips?
There are sound cards with higher line out level, these are interfaces with a pro line out whose nominal level is + 4 dBu (compared to the -10 dBv of a consumer line out). That's around 1.2 V vs 0.3 V....
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Audio cuts out after some time on mixer when set to -10dBV level
I ran into the same problem and came to your post. My mixer is not exactly the same, but in this case it applies. It's the Xenix 1204FX Pro. Looking at the schematic, I noticed the jack's internal ...
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Playing MP3/AAC music on powered loudspeaker
Remember that the output from your iPhone or Mac is likely stereo. Do you have TWO of these speakers? Or do you want to combine the Left + Right signals together into a monaural signal? You will ...
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What's the correct way to connect my active speakers to my laptop using an external sound interface?
Make sure you are using the correct outputs of the focusrite interface to connect to your speakers. A very common issue would be if you connected the headphone out of the interface to a line-in of the ...
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Remove Buzzing on PC Line In Jack with Audio Compressor After Mixer
EMV is very much correct but there are a number of things you can do to reduce the hum.
Make sure all of the audio equipment is on the same circuit to help reduce chance that you are in a ground loop....
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Difference between microphone and line in inputs?
generally mike input is for electret mic. which has in build small circuit with mosfet it needs some power which is called biasing power the mic input
is also capable to supply this biasing voltage, ...
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Can instrument effects pedals be used for (live) vocals? Either at mic level or line level?
As Submadreamgun said you can do it with a good preamp and a good DI, but there is a great solution for that matter, this box that combines both for doing it very easily during live gigs : http://sub-...
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Can instrument effects pedals be used for (live) vocals? Either at mic level or line level?
I've been using a multi effects pedal for almost 6 years for my guitar. Recently, my wife and I were wanting to be able to build a karaoke set up that is compact. When using a laptop didn't work out ...
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