Crystal pickups are relatively robust, and produce a substantial signal level which requires only a modest amount of further amplification.
Although we don't have one for review, the idea is obviously to make full use of the stereo Alesis delay on gigs small enough not to need further amplification.
That is fortunate, since the material is so potentially lurid that it needs no further stylistic amplification.
Microphone and instrument inputs, by contrast, are designed for devices which require further amplification to be at line-level.
Transimpedance amplifiers are commonly used in receivers for optical communications to convert the current generated by a photodetector into a voltage signal for further amplification.
Any further amplification would cause me to exceed my terms of reference.
A preamplifier (preamp) is an electronic amplifier that prepares a small electrical signal for further amplification or processing.
The last of these - whose iconic status hardly needs further amplification - is the only place in Normandy never to have fallen into English hands.
It was built to accommodate sound requirements of various types of presentations, and can typically hold opera and orchestra performances without further amplification.
However, not all PAS documents are structured as specifications and the term is now sufficiently well established not to require any further amplification.