A pre-amp is not necessary when sending aline level signal from a mixer to a sound card. Your friend probably needed to select line input in the record section of Windows mixer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victory Associates LTD, Inc." Subject: CONNECTING A MIXER TO THE COMPUTER -- DO I NEED A PREAMP?? > Yesterday in church, one of my colleagues was trying to record the service > via the computer using a software he called Music Studio 2005; he ran a > one-eight inch patch cord from the Maki mixer to the LINE-IN on the > computer. However, he was unable to record. > > He asked me why he was unable to record having connected the mixer to the > computer with a patch cord; I told him that a preamp would be needed for > this to occur. Is my assessment close enough to being correct??
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