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Luke Techie

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Hello All,

 

Thank you very much for all your help in the Safety Forum, it was very much appreciated and passed my A Level on Wednesday with flying colours. I have another question regarding sound from a PC and what lead to use.

 

I am wishing to take the sound from a standard PC sound card and put it into the mixer, I have tried one type of standard jack to jack plug but it only comes out of one speaker. Can anyone point me in the direction of the cable I should be using (preferably from Maplin, as I am placing an order with them soon) if not where-ever I can obtain a cable from.

 

I look foward to receiving again some very helpful replies!!

 

:D

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What you want is a 3.5mm stereo mini jack to two 6.3mm jack lead. Maplins, Sound Control, etc should all have them in stock.

 

Alternatively you can get a small adaptor to convert 3.5mm stereo jack to 2x 6.3mm jack sockets, then you can use standard 6.3mm jack leads to input to the mixer.

Posted

I use either on of these

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/media/mediumimages/34196i0.jpg

(Maplin N85AN)

 

Or one of these

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/media/mediumimages/28722i0.jpg

(Maplin VL42V)

 

With a couple of these if neccesary...

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/media/mediumimages/1280i0.jpg

(Maplin RW01B)

 

Which works OK for most things (Background music, visualisation driving, discos etc... but for any quality SFX work or anything close to a noise floor you stand a high chance of running into problems with noise and realy need an external soundcard. (Where the A>D's are external to the computer so don't have the same noise induced...)

 

At the moment I'm using the M-Audio 410 Firewire.

 

http://www.m-audio.nl/images/firewirefrontrear.gif

 

James

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