Trying to help a friend get guitar to PC connectivity to do some recording with Cubase. Before he buys a mixer or DI box or upgrades his sound card, I want to loan him my strobo stomp and see if we can get things happening.
Any of you know if I can run XLR out of the VS-S to a 1/4" male and then adapt it to 1/8" male and into a conventional PC soundcard audio in (usually the microphone input on a PC) ??
Any reason you wouldn't just come out of the 1/4" output of the Stomp?
Sure, the DI quality is better, but by the time you do all that adapting to get it down to 1/8", you're going to end up with he same kind of signal coming out of the 1/4" output of the stomp.
To answer your question though, you would be able to do it how you mentioned. Also if he is recording guitar, do you want the clean guitar signal straight into Cubase?
Technically the DI would do what you are describing. But reducing back down to 1/8" to get into the PC is where you may lose enough to be back where you started..... since the balanced 3 conductor signal from an XLR will not translate into an unbalanced 1/8" PC jack.... You would be losing the other side of the balanced line.
It's a good thought, but I would recomend one of those USB sound card adapters that have single or dual XLR/TRS combo input connections with a gain knob.
There is a company called lightsnake that makes a cable that actually converts a single XLR connection to a digital USB input.... some kind of A/D conversion right in the cable.
DI into a PC?
Posted - 10/14/2007 : 20:54:21
