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 Mike
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Pre-Amp > Left and Right of sound card.

You will need a 1/4 male -to- left and right RCA cable.

Do you have a mixer?


   
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Pre-Amp > Left and Right of sound card.

You will need a 1/4 male -to- left and right RCA cable.

Do you have a mixer?

No mixer, except for the software ones the card came with.

So the pre amp out is stereo? Manual doesn't specify.


   
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It depends on the rings towards the tip of the cable. If it has one ring, it is mono. If it has two rings, it is stereo.


   
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It depends on the rings towards the tip of the cable. If it has one ring, it is mono. If it has two rings, it is stereo.

I know how to tell if a male plug is stereo or mono. I think the amp out is only mono and was trying to understand how I would go from mono pre amp out to stereo L&R in, as in your suggestion. Forgive me, sometimes I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


   
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It looks to me like what you need is a standard guitar cable to come out of the preamp plug on the amp. Then a female mono 1/4 inch to two mono male 1/4 inch jacks like this Adapter to then go into the 2 1/4 inch anolog cables on the card.

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 Mike
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Nils,

I own and use the cable I talked about above. You do not need any adapters. It is simply the cable I said earlier.

Like this,


   
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Nils,

I own and use the cable I talked about above. You do not need any adapters. It is simply the cable I said earlier.

Like this, but longer

I don't think his card has L/R rca input. All I see is s/pdif and optical and the 1/4 inch in and outs

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Thanks Nils, I'll hit RS on the way home.

Tracker, I understand what you were saying now.

Thanks guys.


   
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I didn't think it was 1/4's to the soundcard, I thought it looked like a RCA connection. I guess I need to look at the spec's next time! :oops:

Well they do make a 1/4 with no need for adapters, like this one.

The two mono plugs mean nothing because you are splitting the stereo into L/R.


   
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