Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-30 Thread José Luis Artuch
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Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-30 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Mon, 30 May 2016, Bill Unruh wrote: > I still do not know what the difference between the UCA222 and UCA 202 is, > except the latter is silver and the former red (and the latter is slightly > more expensive.) What I have understood, but I maybe wrong: The hardware is the same, but the

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-30 Thread Bill Unruh
I still do not know what the difference between the UCA222 and UCA 202 is, except the latter is silver and the former red (and the latter is slightly more expensive.) There is also a version of the 202 which has a RIAA preamp built in (UFO202?) This is for transfering vinyl to digital. This is

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-30 Thread Martin McCormick
The UCA222 I settled upon to buy came today and it is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks to all for the suggestions. What I did to test recording was to cat /dev/dsp1 >/dev/dsp since neither sound card should have been active at the time. What you tend to get if you do

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-28 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 27 May 2016, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > Scanner audio has an SNR of about 40dB on a good day. Bandwidth is about 4KHz. Which means that the Behringer should be far more than adequate for you. (actually it should even be more than adequate for almost everyone). > > > Bill Unruh

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread lists
Scanner audio has an SNR of about 40dB on a good day. Bandwidth is about 4KHz.   Original Message   From: Martin McCormick Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 5:52 PM To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo Bill Unruh <un...@physics.ubc

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Bill Unruh writes: > > If you want to try a really cheap, but really working one: I have a > > Behringer ACA222. Not good enough for the Pros and Studios, but I am > quite > > UCA222. It seems more or less identical to the UCA202. And the quality is > actually good. 16 bit

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 27 May 2016, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 May 2016, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > >> Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line >> input that works in Linux? > > If you want to try a really cheap, but really working one: I have a > Behringer ACA222. Not good

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 27 May 2016, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line > input that works in Linux? If you want to try a really cheap, but really working one: I have a Behringer ACA222. Not good enough for the Pros and Studios, but I am quite happy with it.

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 27 May 2016, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line > input that works in Linux? I am surprized. I would have thought that most sound cards at least with line input, would do stereo. The microphone inputs will quite possibly be mono (

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread lists
Sorry about the blank message. If you go onto eBay and search for "USB sound"‎, a number of vendors sell this metal cased sound card that uses a cmedia chip set. It works under Linux, at least as far as the line in and out go. 

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread lists
  Original Message   From: Martin McCormick Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 12:59 PM To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line input that works in Linux? I recently needed to buy one as