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From: John Rigg <aldev@sound-man.co.uk>
To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Cheap USB audio card with phantom
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:36:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070128193658.GA2658@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701281803.24483.mgd@technosis.de>

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:03:08PM +0100, Michael Gerdau wrote:
> > I need to record voices with good quality.
> 
> From this I deduce you don't require long cables with your mic which
> implies you don't need balanced cables (at all cost).
> 
> Nothing wrong with using XLR, but from what you write not a "must have"
> type of requirement.

Any mic that needs 48V phantom power needs a balanced cable
in order to work. XLR inputs are the de facto standard on
phantom capable mic preamps.

John

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-28 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1169882126.3763.5.camel@localhost>
2007-01-27 21:15 ` [Alsa-user] Cheap USB audio card with phantom Jean-Michel Pouré
2007-01-27 22:30   ` Bill Unruh
2007-01-28  0:42     ` John Rigg
2007-01-29 13:46       ` Matthias Koenig
     [not found]         ` <1170078899.13908.1.camel@localhost>
2007-01-29 14:37           ` Matthias Koenig
2007-01-28  8:55     ` Jean-Michel Pouré
2007-01-28 16:30       ` [Alsa-user] " Pieter Palmers
2007-01-28 17:03       ` Michael Gerdau
2007-01-28 17:50         ` Jean-Michel Pouré
2007-01-28 19:36         ` John Rigg [this message]
2007-01-28  1:22   ` Robert Emil Berge

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