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Laptop/Optical In question

Posted on Feb 13, 2007 10:04 am
TheJazzyOne
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Member Since: Feb 03, 2003

Hey guys

I'm not overly experienced with working with Optical I/O. I have a mic preamp that has optical out and I know for a fact that it sends 8 seperate channels through the wire (I used it to make my old recorder take 16 inputs at once instead of 8).

What I'm wondering is if I could use it along with a PCMCIA card like this one...

<a href="www.creative.com/products...10769</a>

and have 8 seperate input tracks on my laptop. The inputs look different... from the preamp it is a fiber optical connection, and the one on the sound card looks RCA-ish. Is it possible to use a converter on something like that?

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guitar_jim
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Since: Jun 09, 2004

Feb 13, 2007 10:43 pm

If you're sending 8 channels of digital out of your preamp, then i'm betting it's ADAT. I have a similar setup with my Fostex recorder...makes 16 channels out of 8)

Your link didn't work for me, but RCA-ish digital sounds like S/PDIF, or two tracks at a time. You'd need to find a PCMCIA card that accepts ADAT. You can find 'em, but they're pretty spendy.

kennethwsmithjr
The Eternal Student
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Since: Oct 08, 2005

Feb 14, 2007 12:57 pm

yeah, it didn't look like that card had ADAT, just spdif.

It's the PCMCIA soundblaster audigy card right?

[edit] www.zzounds.com.../item--CBIMLSPL this one?

whosyourdaddy00
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Since: Dec 30, 2004

Feb 14, 2007 01:19 pm

yep, there are a few types of digital connectors

ADAT is optical only and is 8 channels

S/PDIF can be optical or coaxel (RCA) and is two channels

AES/EBU is an XLR type connector that is 8 channels aswell