USB cables

[WykedPT]

Does anyone make a RCA to USB cable? I would like to use my mixer to record to my computer.but don't want to use the line in.......or does anyone here know how to make one?....

 

[dintymoore]

There is no cable to do what you're asking.

USB deals with a digital signal and a mixer, using audio RCA outs, puts out an analog signal.

What you need is a USB interface, which has the additional electronics to convert the RCA analog to digital, and there's lots of threads on this forum about which one to buy, cost and so on.

 

[dodgeaspen]

Sorry I'm not a digital person but why not use the line in?

 

[oretez]

Sorry I'm not a digital person but why not use the line in?
4 Hours Ago 10:15

A/D converters on most general purpose computers tend to have enough issues that when possible it is better to find a different option. It is possible to use them to record perfectly acceptable material, but at only slight increase in cost one can usually achieve a lot more flexibility and avoid a host of other issues (automatic, on the fly, resampling to hardware fixed sampling rate for example)

Unless they are completely challenged (usesless) you can think of converters on general purpose consumer computers as providing quality of standard cassette decks . . . with slightly more flexibility

but as I said it does not require a huge expenditure to improve both quality and flexibility