[wellylug] Transferring LP's to CD's

[Jonathan Harker]

On Monday, 28 April 2003 23:16, Chris Harris wrote:
> most of which can be solved by taking the line-out from the pre-amp
> and being careful with the levels.

Well, no see that's my point. Even if you've got preamp output at a 
decent level, you're still limited at the PC end by mostly crap AD 
circuitry unless you've spent a decent amount of money on audio gear. 
Most sound cards, being less than $200, have put the money on DA 
output, not on AD input. So they sound okay but generally record pretty 
badly. Any number of Sound on Sound articles will confirm this. Try 
recording silence from your line in connected to your amp, and then 
have a listen up loud to the hard disk activity, CPU, and other 
interference that you get on a cheap card. Built in motherboard 
circuitry is probably the worst for this. And its resolution is pobably 
only about 12 bits...

> don't expect it to be 'CD quality' though :-)

Precisely :-)

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Jonathan Harker
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