[BillyShope]

I'm using a magnetic cartridge with a Radio Shack preamp and the signal is simply too hot. I'm thinking of putting a resistor into each line. Does 10 ohms sound about right?

[ogdens]

I'm using a magnetic cartridge with a Radio Shack preamp and the signal is simply too hot. I'm thinking of putting a resistor into each line. Does 10 ohms sound about right?

Sounds like you are plugged into the Mic jack, try the Line in.(assuming you have a line in )

This post has been edited by ogdens: 17 January 2008 - 02:18 PM

[BillyShope]

Sounds like you are plugged into the Mic jack, try the Line in.(assuming you have a line in )

You guessed it: No line in.

[Brendon]

The only way you can get proper matching is by knowing all the impedances of the devices, however when I was doing this sort of hookup I had a patch cord which worked quite well when connecting a speaker out jack to a mic in.

It had an 8 ohm resistor in the signal line, and 8 ohms from there to the earth line. Try that and see if it suits. If it doesn't, then experiment with the resistance. It's not critical.

[d_deweywright]

You guessed it: No line in.

The problem as I see it now is that your Mic jack is quite likely a mono input, not a stereo input. You might consider getting yourself a USB audio capture device, essentially, an external "sound card" connected via USB. The problem with many of those is that they don't have volume controls, so your input to them can still get too "hot".