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Originally Posted by Billfred
Alright, so I'm plotting and scheming up the Next Big Thing (tm) in college radio. And one element of that is the ability to record things out in the field.
I've got the ability to record something to my laptop, with an arrangement that looks like this:
Source -> Mic port -> Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net)
However, since I'm all for taking it to the next level, here's my current plan:
Sources -> ??? -> Mic port -> Audacity
What I'm trying to figure out, in a nutshell, is how to do ??? on the cheap. Given my experience with headphones (and high school physics taught me they're related) and the slider some have on them to control volume, I believe a potentiometer in series with a source could do the job. Put a few in a nice and neat project box, and I think it could work for the job.
Thus, I have three questions:
1) Will such an arrangement fry my laptop?
2) Will such an arrangement deliver audio I can play on the air without flinching?
3) Is there a better solution for this?
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What exactly did you want this box to do? Did you want to mix multiple sources into your mic port?
What exactly is it that you want your final product to be? If all you want is to have multiple tracks playing at once, you could easily do it in audacity with out any additional hardware. If you wanted to have something like multiple microphones recording onto the same track at once, you can buy splitters that will run any number of devices into the one line-in. You can wire one your self, but my experience with audio wiring is that it doing it right requires a great deal of skill and probably more money then just buying something prewired.
I guess I would just like to know a bit more about what it is your trying to record.
-Andy A.