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From: jorourke@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (Jason O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Question about digitizing sound on SoundBlaster
Message-ID: <1991May17.191012.28047@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 19:10:12 GMT
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In article <1991May17.143321.14985@nntp-server.caltech.edu> nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
>tchuang@leland.Stanford.EDU ( Chuang) writes:
>>   I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to record
>>sound directly from a source (eg. CD player, etc...) instead
>>of recording it through a microphone.  I tried to do this once
>>(ie. running a patch cord from the CD line out to the
>>SoundBlaster's mic input) but the recorded sound was pretty
>>muffled (maybe due to impedence matching problems or something).
>>Any ideas?
>What you're hearing is an excessive amount of clipping. You just need
>to turn down the output level a tad.
The resistor would be the proper way, I think.  But a lot of work! (at
least for me)  I asked someone about recording and he told me he hooked
up his walkman with the volume VERY LOW, and it worked out great.  This
might be a good starting point, while you try to get the other imputs going
J.S.O.