Wanted: Inexpensive audio mixer
Nov. 5th, 2007 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carlfoxmartenRecently I've been listening to a bunch of music tapes, but don't have a tape deck with good enough sound, so I had been playing it through my computer's Line In port, which actually worked quite well.
Since I upgraded to a newer version of my OS (I'm now using Ubuntu Linux, version 7.04, otherwise known as Feisty Fawn) the Line In audio isn't getting routed to the speakers properly.
I still have the previous version of Linux I'd been using (as I'd installed the new version to another drive), and it works perfectly there, as it does on Win98SE, also installed alongside both of these.
I'm trying to see just what drivers it's using to drive the sound card, but I've been thinking about finding and using an audio mixer for awhile now and think it's a better solution.
You see, I have three computers and one set of speakers (the laptop speakers don't really count, due to their quality).
While I could try to daisy-chain each computer's sound through each other, they're not turned on in a reliable-enough order to warrant that, and then there's my main computer's Line-In problem.
What I'd really like is an audio mixer that takes about four 3.5mm stereo inputs with separate volume controls and produces one 3.5mm stereo output jack to plug my speakers into.
...I may have to make it myself.
Since I upgraded to a newer version of my OS (I'm now using Ubuntu Linux, version 7.04, otherwise known as Feisty Fawn) the Line In audio isn't getting routed to the speakers properly.
I still have the previous version of Linux I'd been using (as I'd installed the new version to another drive), and it works perfectly there, as it does on Win98SE, also installed alongside both of these.
I'm trying to see just what drivers it's using to drive the sound card, but I've been thinking about finding and using an audio mixer for awhile now and think it's a better solution.
You see, I have three computers and one set of speakers (the laptop speakers don't really count, due to their quality).
While I could try to daisy-chain each computer's sound through each other, they're not turned on in a reliable-enough order to warrant that, and then there's my main computer's Line-In problem.
What I'd really like is an audio mixer that takes about four 3.5mm stereo inputs with separate volume controls and produces one 3.5mm stereo output jack to plug my speakers into.
...I may have to make it myself.
