Hardware question

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 20:40 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Computer related, but not really OS specific.
> 
> I have several systems in a room together and I'm looking for a way to 
> integrate their sound outputs together with some external mixer device.
> 
> Basic idea requirements (minimum)
> 4 inputs (1/8" preferred to avoid signal loss from adapters)
> 2 outputs (again preferred to be 1/8" stereo jacks)
> 
> Each input and output needs its own volume slider so that I can kill an 
> output by just pulling the slider all the way down (same with each 
> input).  I don't care if it is a passive device (no power input) or an 
> active one (AC input).
> 
> The purpose is that I want to be able to have all the systems hooked up 
> to one set of speakers and a set of headphones without having to reach 
> behind any of them to adjust jack connections and want to be able to 
> have them all connected together since I have music or movies coming 
> from any one of the systems as well as games.  It was suggested that 
> Creative made something like this, but the few things I saw on their 
> site seemed to require a sound card in the system for those boxes and 
> were more for mixing audio sources (MIDI, keyboards, and other 
> instruments).  I'd rather it had no dependancy on a card in a system or 
> on any OS (e.g. no USB connections or software or drivers to control). 
> This is because none of the systems are always up.
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Mixing board - cheap (8 channel) Pilot Pad or other (approx $100) -
Guitar Center (Near Metro Center / Scottsdale Pavillions / 56th and
Elliot)

Uses large jacks, buy adaptors.

Craig