I have used cheap usb sound cards for vinyl control without a hardware
preamp and they worked. So do you think i still need a hardware preamp with
the Maya44 USB.
Thanks
Adam
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Joseph Colosimo <m...@jwcxz.com> wrote:
> I have a Maya44 USB and have no problem with the sound inputs out of the
> box. Yes, there are no input gain controls. But this is not a problem
> for me, as the input levels are fine. What are you using your card for?
> If it's for vinyl control, make sure you have preamps attached as the
> Maya44 does not have internal phono-level preamps.
>
> If you're using it as a microphone input, it should work fine. I
> haven't tried that though.
>
> Now, the Maya44 has 3 output level controls: master, line 1 and line 2.
> I think Line 1 and Line 2 are called "Line" and "Line 1" or something
> due to poor ALSA naming.
>
> On my system, ALSA defaults by turning master to 0, which makes things
> coming out of the card barely audible. So, you'll need to turn that up
> quite a bit. I turn it to full.
>
> The other two control whether you pass audio input from Channels {1,2}
> or {3,4} directly to the output (I think it ties them to both Channels
> {1,2} and {3,4} of the output, but I haven't tested this). I'm not sure
> if this is analog passthrough or if it's digital. Obviously, though,
> you want to leave these muted if you use timecoded vinyl, unless
> you like treating your audience with annoying high-pitched noises. :P
>
> I've used this card with every Linux Kernel from about 2.6.37 onwards.
>
> Important note: your computer may not be able to handle four channels of
> input and four channels of output! This is really weird. I've tried
> the card on 4 computers. Two of them were Intel's newer Core system.
> On my Core i7 desktop, 4 channels of sound input and 4 channels of sound
> output isn't a problem. On a Core i5 Dell desktop, if I tried that
> configuration, Mixxx would crash and ALSA would complain about
> insufficient bandwidth (check the output of dmesg). On a Core 2 Duo
> laptop, I had the same bandwidth issues. But on a slightly newer Core
> Solo laptop, all 4 channels worked, but with some occasional skipping.
>
> Crazy, huh?
>
> HTH,
> Joe
>
> Harry Van Haaren @ Wed 22 Jun 11 12:40:13 +0100:
>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:40:13 +0100
>> From: Harry Van Haaren <harryhaa...@gmail.com>
>> To: Adam Spence <adam.spe...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: mixxx-devel
>> <mixxx-devel@lists.**sourceforge.net<mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [Mixxx-devel] Maya44 USB Inputs
>>
>>
>> Hmmm strange. Here we go: nasty debugging style :D
>>
>> Please post the outputs of the following: (from a terminal)
>>
>> aplay -L
>> lsmod | grep snd
>>
>> Another helpful bit of info would be a screenshot of alsamixer with all
>> its
>> controls (hit F5).
>>
>> Cheers, -Harry
>>
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