Dell Inspiron 8500 high-level audio input?

The Dell Inspiron 8500 notebook PC is equipped with a microphone input
but has no high-level line inputs to accept audio from a tape deck,
tuner, phonograph, etc. In the old days if one had a tape recorder
with only a microphone input, you could use dropping resistors
(usually 50K) to record from such sources. Will this trick work with
the Dell 8500? (Or will the microphone input also accept the
higher-level inputs as-is?)

Be sure to include a blocking capacitor, say 0.1 uf or 1 uf ,
as there is a DC voltage on center conductor of the Jack, as
input is designed for electret mikes; to keep the DC off your
source device.

If you go into the Mixer OPTIONS for RECORDING then ADVANCED,
some mixers allow you to cut the input level by 20 db. My Sony Vaio
does not have this do I build a small voltage divider using a 10 turn
10K pot to cut the input down to a level that the Vaio Mic input could
handle.

Jim




On 11 Nov 2003 05:49:07 -0800, wrote:

>The Dell Inspiron 8500 notebook PC is equipped with a microphone input
>but has no high-level line inputs to accept audio from a tape deck,
>tuner, phonograph, etc. In the old days if one had a tape recorder
>with only a microphone input, you could use dropping resistors
>(usually 50K) to record from such sources. Will this trick work with
>the Dell 8500? (Or will the microphone input also accept the
>higher-level inputs as-is?)