<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have heard good reports of the M-Audio USB Pre also (but never tried it myself).<div><br></div><div>A cheap USB interface device which does this is the iMic (about $35USD). I carry one around with me as an emergency tool. In my experience, it has automatically interfaced with the computer, so I haven't had to figure out how to add it as a recording/listening device. It goes from USB to stereo (3.5mm) plug and can be switched from microphone to speaker/headphone function, and it can also function to boost speaker output a bit which can be handy if you are trying to play something and need the speakers just a bit louder.</div><div><br></div><div>It has no way adjust input or output directly, so that must be done on the computer software end or the microphone/speaker end, or both. This is definitely not the device I would choose if it was my only option in the field. But it does come in handy for some tasks, and I have used it for emergency situations to record direct to the computer. And it also can be useful if you run across a cassette tape which a community member is not willing to let out of their possession, since you can use it to digitize from a cassette player (as long as a player has a headphone jack which is 3.5mm size can be located) directly to your laptop.</div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">_________________________________</span></span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Naomi Palosaari </span></span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Center for American Indian Languages</span></span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">University of Utah</span></span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On May 25, 2010, at 4:03 AM, Ken Manson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I have been using the M-audio USB Pre and are very happy with the results.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MobilePreUSB.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MobilePreUSB.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Direct recording to computer (without the M-audio device) often caused the recording to skip/crash – just way too much data for my laptop’s sound card to handle.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Currently here in Thailand M-audio products are on special (wish I had waited) and the USB pre can be picked up for around USD100 (the US website lists it at USD179).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">With the M-audio USB pre I am able to record in stereo or mono with Audacity (and Sony SoundForge) with no problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The only problem with the M-audio is that it is possible to get a blue screen by unplugging it while the computer is still running.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Ken Manson<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>John Hatton [<a href="mailto:john_hatton@sil.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:john_hatton@sil.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, 25 May 2010 1:41 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Daryn McKenny';<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Resource-Network-Linguistic-Diversity@unimelb.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Resource-Network-Linguistic-Diversity@unimelb.edu.au</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: USB audio input devices<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">>Supposedly the H4N can do it:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Thing is, the H2 had a similar claim, but when I actually tried it, it was limited to some lower frequency/bit level (I forget the details). So now I’m wary...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">John Hatton</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="http://pnglanguages.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-decoration: none; ">SIL Papua New Guinea</span></a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://palaso.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-decoration: none; ">Palaso</span></a>, &<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://sil.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-decoration: none; ">SIL International<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a>Software Development</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">No virus found in this incoming message.<br>Checked by AVG -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.avg.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2894 - Release Date: 05/25/10 01:26:00</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>