On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:13:13PM -0500, Ross M Karchner wrote: > I was looking around at Radio Shack and noticed that phono splitters > were available. That made me think I could route ALL signal from the > turntables to both the mixer and the sound card, and then run outputs > from the sound card to the LINE inputs on the mixer. To switch from > MIXXX to Vinyl, I just flip the PHONO/LINE switch for that channel. > > The only flaws I can think of: > > - Will this (noticeably) weaken the PHONO signal? > - Will MIXXX freak out if it is expecting control signals and gets music?
Splitter cables generally wreck sound quality. There's a reason why audio connections are usually point-to-point. What you'd want, I think, is a switch box. So you route the phono signal *either* to the mixer *or* the PC, never both. Thus you're not sharing the signal, and music from vinyl doesn't go into mixxx. Switch boxes can cause sound degradation. An off-the-shelf job from Radio Shack or Maplin is designed for convenience rather than sound quality. But it's such a simple thing you can build one (or rather, two) yourself using good quality switch, sockets and wiring in a shielded box. It's probably still going to be cheaper than getting a 4ch 2send mixer, and perhaps easier, though less flexible. One question though, probably for Albert... is the timecode ok coming in at unamplified phono level, or is it expected to come from a mixer send at line level? Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
