Fred, It has been quite some time since I've had anything to do with vinyl, but here goes nothing:
First, it seems that you are taking the output from your turntable and putting it directly into your sound card. I don't think that this will work. First, I think that you need some type of preamplifier for use with turntable's cartridge - be it moving magnet or moving coil (although I seem to remember that MC really needed a good MC preamp). The turntable input for on a preamp or a receiver has the necessary circuitry to step up the voltage to the correct level. 1.5 Vpp seems to ring a bell. If you try to record directly from the turntable's outputs you will have to increase the gain so much so that you will get heaps of distortion. What you might want to try is connecting the turntable to a preamp or receiver and then connect the tape deck output to the sound card's *line level* (not the mic's) input. Anyway, maybe it will work. Cheers & Happy New Year! Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of fred smith Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recording sound with ES1371 I'm working on learning how to rip audio off vinyl LPs so I can turn some of my 30-40 year old collection of LPs into CDs. I'm having trouble, I believe, with my soundcard, Creative AudioPCI, which uses the es1371 driver. I've used both gramofile and snd to capture some sound from the turnable, and in both cases get quite a bit of distortion even though both tools report that I have NOT had a high enough level to drive the system into clipping (gramofile reports only a small number of samples above 90%, NONE above 99, and NONE clipped). Using SND, the VU meters never go above about 75-85% but the same distortion occurs. IF, OTOH, I reduce the input gain so that the VU meters hover around 50%, the audio is not audibly distorted. trouble with this, of course, is we lose dynamic range. Am I stuck with doing it this way? Is it an issue with the sound card, or is there some trick to adjusting the mixer's controls? Or am I destined to have to buy a new sound card so I can accomplish this task? If I need a new card, I'm open to suggestions (but I'm not made out of money!) Thanks! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
