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Last night I DJ'd a 25th anniversary party and they had a video/picture show on a laptop, with music. They wanted to run the sound through my mixer, but the laptop only had a headphone out jack, not an audio line out. Of course, that wouldn't work in a audio in line on my mixer (just got distortion), so I ended up laying a microphone near the laptop's speaker. It was passable.

What I'm wondering is if there is a gadget of some sort that can take a headphone signal and knock it down to line level. Thanks.

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Sounds Great! Entertainment
Bartlett, Illinois

Marty on those jacks ya just need to turn down the volume as low as usable, (unless the soundcard is junk) Being I have many USB and pcmcia audio/video devices for laptops I can pre-arrange to pull audio from a client's notebook computer, or hopefully have them come to us and produce them on AVID and produce them to DVD. And will do it as a convience (free of charge) to us to save us the hassle of a trainwreck onsite. (it's a rare case)

It makes life a real nice world during someone's wedding.

P.S. Direct Boxes work real nice too Behringer makes one that actually is not junk. That goes to mic level, and pads the input levels.

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Brian D.
(BHB)

I have a similar situation, and came up with a good 'Jury' rig if you will.

For background/interlude music, I use a Sony Discman. I run a 1/8"- RCA plug wire out from the headset jack. I then have (2) RCA- 1/4" plugs that I run into the last channel of my mixer. The wire cost $2, and the adaptors about $4. I keep the CD volume on 2, and adjust everything else thru the mixer.

Hope that helps.

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