Connecting DMP3 to a Delta 410

[felixmanos]

This project amazes me. I hate not gnowing what I'm doing, and even worse, I hate for the world+dog to gnow I don't gnow right along with me.

Wanna do h/d recording. To inspire myself I bought the Delta 410 card with all those RCA female end cables. I registered here to figure out how to hook up my desktop speakers. The people here finally got me to understand I not only had to have powered speakers, but the input had to be amplified also. Found myself trusting this guy who seemed to gnow what he was doing and bought the DMP3 pre-amp two days ago. Coupla questions.

Can I connect the pre-amp directly to the card if all I want to do is record to h/d?

I have never held or seen a pre-amp or a microphone such as the one I'll eventually use here before. I don't know where to plug in the microphone or route the input cables. There are two plug ins on the back of the preamp. one is a round female socket with three holes. The other is a quarter inch female receptacle. Which one is for the microphone?

Previous to buying the card I had never noticed an RCA connector before. When I got to the store to buy one I didn't gnow what I was looking for.

I'm an old man. I got no business messing with this stuff. I'm doing it anyway. Will y'all help me again?

Thanks

 

[felixmanos]

A friend straightened me out about which jack goes where. That leaves me with figuring out if I can connect the pre-amp directly to the sound card. The problem for me is what cables to get. The output receptacle on the pre-amp is a 1/4" phone jack, and the input on the card is a female RCA cable. Does this mean that I have to get a cable with an male RCA on one end and a 1/4" male phone plug on the other end?

Thanks

 

[Gidge]

thats exactly what you need...actually you need 2 if you'll be using both channels of the DMP3......

 

[felixmanos]

Thanks, it seems silly, but I need this kind of confirmation.

A friend gave me a microphone that had been left in a truck he bought. It has a cable that ends in a 1/4' plug. I assume that is the standard. There is a three prong receptacle on the pre-amp. Am I to assume that that three point receptable is for the power supply for certain types of microphones? The microphone my friend gave me is a cardoid dynamic microphone by Ars Technica. The model number is DB105. The quality, for better or worse is not really important to me. The important thing is to get this preamp connect to the sound card so I can start making noise, and recording it on my h/d.

What are the parameters I need to be aware of if one of the objects of my project is to use a microphone that will work optimally with voice recognition?