How to record very faint sound from the analogue input?

[Dotan Cohen]

> another possibility is to go to a DIY electronic shop, which I assume
> also exists in Israel, and buy a telephone preamp kit. Otherwise you can
> search the web for companies that sell these kits. A Dutch firm,
> Velleman sells them and a much larger German (Sorry I forgot the name)
> also. In most cases they are easy to construct and come complete with
> circuitboard and components. You only need some housing to attach the
> controls (e.g. a pot-meter for volume control). You can buy them from
> aluminum but nowadays you have lots of packaging material (cardboard,
> plastic, or whatever) for housing your circuit. They normally are
> battery powered but I currently I use a leftover power supply from a
> discarded device (e.g. mobile telephone, etc.) as the needed power is
> normally very low ( a few mA is sufficient). Typicaaly the have a high
> input impedance and a low output impedance and that's what you want.
> Hope this will help you.
> Joep
>

Thanks, I've done some googling and the most bare-bones amp that I
could come up with was this:
http://www.pmillett.com/starving.htm

That is still quite a project! I am going to have to find some other
creative solution.

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