I recently purchased a tascam us122 to record classical guitar on my
laptop (yes, same guy who was asking how to do that last week). Well,
it all works fine. However, not really any better, and perhaps
slightly worse than my previous setup which was, Behringer mixer into
soundblaster live card (PC). Don't get me wrong, i'm very happy with
the convenience and portability of the us122 and that's a major reason
i bought it.
My question is, why do i have to crank up the levels on the 122 to
almost full in order to get a decent signal. Whereas with the
behringer i have the gain less than half and the level at half, and
it's fine. Does this mean the behringer has better pre's? It's only a
Eurorack (about $50). Also, can i output the behringer into the us122,
or is that a dumb thing to do? Somehow could not get it to work. Maybe
i should get better mics (i have marshall MXL's).