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Title: switchable digimod UA-5
Post by: setboy on December 28, 2008, 11:04:15 PM
Can anyone do the switchable digimod for the UA-5 for me?
Title: Re: switchable digimod UA-5
Post by: run_run_run on January 01, 2009, 05:52:21 PM
PM busman?
Title: Re: switchable digimod UA-5
Post by: SmokinJoe on January 01, 2009, 08:10:38 PM
If Busman is too busy let me know.  When you do the digi-mod you cut a wire in one place, and add a wire in another.  Being able to make and break those connections with a switch should not be a big deal.

Just making sure you know... with a standard digimod you can still RECORD to a computer via USB, you just can't use it for playback.  The switch allows you to use it as a soundcard for playback.  If you really need that capability, then you want the switch.  If not, then it's just one more thing to go wrong IMO.
Title: Re: switchable digimod UA-5
Post by: setboy on January 01, 2009, 08:22:00 PM
Quote from: SmokinJoe on January 01, 2009, 08:10:38 PM
If Busman is too busy let me know.  When you do the digi-mod you cut a wire in one place, and add a wire in another.  Being able to make and break those connections with a switch should not be a big deal.

Just making sure you know... with a standard digimod you can still RECORD to a computer via USB, you just can't use it for playback.  The switch allows you to use it as a soundcard for playback.  If you really need that capability, then you want the switch.  If not, then it's just one more thing to go wrong IMO.

Can I get a definition on how we are using the word playback?
 
Title: Re: switchable digimod UA-5
Post by: SmokinJoe on January 01, 2009, 09:29:16 PM
Quote from: setboy on January 01, 2009, 08:22:00 PM

Can I get a definition on how we are using the word playback?
 

Normally a soundcard in a computer allows you to play music from some program out to speakers or line-out, etc.  I call that playback, and a stock UA-5 can do that, acting as an external soundcard to the computer via USB.  When you do a digimod it breaks that capability in the UA-5.  Most of us don't miss this functionality in the UA-5, we just use the soundcard in our computers.

When a UA-5 has the digi-mod done you can still record from the UA-5 to the computer via USB, so if you want to be the occasional laptop taper, you can still do that, or use a JB3, H120, MT, etc.
Title: Re: switchable digimod UA-5
Post by: tgakidis on January 03, 2009, 04:17:26 PM
I have this mod and it was done by the person i bought it from, daco63, and he got the instructions here: http://album.he.fi/hessu/ua5-switch-modified/