Le Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:34:01 -0700, Richard Crowley a écrit*:
"Bernard" wrote ...
Ever since I wrote my first post, I have found this link, where my audio
card is being discussed by users. All comments are positive, except for
the first one on the list, and it just happens that the guy purchased
that card for the same purpose as mine, that is, digitilizing vinyl
records. He also found input levels too low,
Unless your card is broken I can't see how "digitizing vinyl records" has
anything to do with "levels too low". If you are using an RIAA phono
preamp which is putting out the proper line level, it should drive the
M-Audio sound card perfectly. I am quite certain that hundreds (or even
thousands) of people are digitizing vinyl records with this M-Audio card
with no problems at all.
Repeating: Test both your RIAA phono preamp AND your M-Audio card with
other equipment to determine if the preamp is outputing the nominal
consumer line level signal. And try some other source (such as a CD
player, etc.) as the source into the M-Audio card to establish whether
that is the problem.
Nothing you have written causes me to believe that there is anything
intrinsicly problematic with the M-Audio card that causes it to be
unsuitable for digitizing vinyl records. You appear to have a level-
setting problem and so far you have not reported doing any of the
recommended tests to establish where the problem lies. Only you can do
this experiment, we cannot guess how your hardware is working, especially
at this distance.
and digital 'burps' in his audio samples (I don't know what that is, and
I doubt if I have these). He also says that that card did a poor
sampling job, compared to his former audio card. All other comments are
positive, but no one else seems to have digitilized vinyls with that
card...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...e=1 00&Page=1
Nothing about that comment makes me believe there is anything wrong with
the M-Audio card. It seems quite obvious that the person has not set up
his hardware and/or software properly.
...I propose samples below :
http://www.teaser.fr/~bdebreil/musiq...Mozart.wav.bz2
If you post files that only Linux users can easily decrypt, then you can
expect answers from only Linux users and there are very very few (if any?)
of them here. You might have better success taking your question over to a
Linux newsgroup. But PLEASE do not cross-post anything from Linux-land to
this newsgroup. The past results are consistently disasterous.
I don't know anything about 'Linux-land', assuming that this is not a
generic word. The files which I have proposed links for downloading, are
fully workable under MSWIN systems, as I have tested myself. 'Audacity',
which is the software I am using for my purpose, is available for MSWIN
operating system ; I even tested it under Windows XP. The only thing I
have mentioned is the uncompressing of bz2 files. I made sure that
'bunzip' existed as MSWIN version, but I am quite aware that not everyone
may have this software on his/her system. For your information and
that of everyone else in this group, I have rightfully purchased the
Windows XP version that I have installed in a partition of my HDs, even
though I only boot on this system maybe once a month or so : this is my
choice, and I have no complain about this. I am in favour of GNU software,
still being fully aware that this would not exist if such commercial work
as that of Microsoft had not existed.
If you or anyone else are willing to test those links, I am quite prepared
to propose other files without compression, so as to avoid installing
weird compressing software.