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Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Salt Fish posted:

Any ideas?

Your audio interface's inputs will behave differently depending on whether you plug a TS or a TRS jack into it. The difference being whether it thinks it should take the connection as being unbalanced or balanced. Your tv headphone output or an hdmi audio extractor will produce an unbalanced signal. Your test with a single 1/8" TRS to a 1/4" TRS cable will have the interface subtract one channel from the other, resulting in an almost imperceptible signal level. Your ideal cable isn't a 1/8" TRS split into two 1/4" TRS ends for that reason. The TV end uses the TRS connection for two unbalanced signals, so the interface end should have two TS 1/4" jacks, which your interface will happily take.

There are many ways to approach this with adapters, my personal favorite is 1/4" TS to RCA plugs for the interface, combined with whatever common home stereo audio lead you need after that.

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Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Good! You can get the weirdest and wrongest wired up adapter cables on like Amazon, so if it's explicit about what is doing and what you should use it for and what all competitors are doing wrong, that improves your chances vastly.

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Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

The user guide for the microphone says to set the input level in the windows settings to 50%-70% to start with. I recommend trying something like Audacity to see if you actually get clipping and if lowering that level helps.

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