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Re: Converting vinyl (records) to CD - Soundcard advice & Turntable advice needed.

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From: Rick Anderson
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:00
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What OUTPUT are you using from your tuner/amp
that goes to the sound card ?


Les wrote:

> I'm also having problems with recording. The sound just distorts and breaks
> up when I use the line input from an amp and no matter what I try to do it
> just keeps on overloading. I have no problems recording from cd but just
> some old vinyl.
> Am I just being thick or what?
>
> Insect <insect81@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7pigc3$akq$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net...
> > I understand I can plug a turntable through a preamp into a soundcard, and
> > then record to a PC based CD-R.
> >
> > 1.  What soundcard is recommended?  One alternative is the Soundblaster
> Live
> > Value or Soundblaster Live - what is the quality for my purpose?  Do I
> need
> > to step up to something like a Gina card?  What other cards would be good?
> > Is it true that the SB Live samples at 48KHz, and I need 44KHz to record
> to
> > CD, and will therefore get a sound degradation?
> > 2.  What minimum spec do I need for the A/D converters?  Does anyone know
> > the specs on the A/D converters on the SB Live? (e.g. 16 bit, 18 bit,
> etc)?
> > 3.  What software is recommended?
> > 4.  What turntable/cartridge is recommended?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > insect81@hotmail.com
> >
> >
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From: Rick Anderson <smtc2@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Converting vinyl (records) to CD - Soundcard advice & Turntable  advice needed.
Date: 1999/08/24
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