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 ( using the spare line for powering the microphone fet), but line in should be stereo. My old Maudio Transit usb had stereo input, but I think it is not made anymore. Another would be the Behringer UCA202 for about $30 Is that "reasonably priced"? . > > I recently needed to buy one as the second sound card on > a Dell tower running wheezy. A local store which fortunately has > a good return policy sold me a SoundBlaster XG5 which looked like > an excellent possibility until I discovered that it is so > specialized for the gaming market that the only analog audio > input is mono and microphone level to boot. It is a beautiful > device and does have Line in and Line out but they are optical. > Very neat but not what I could use. > > Back it went and they were very nice, only asking if it was > broken and not giving me any trouble when I said that it didn't > appear to be broken but would not work for the intended use. > > I ordered a FIIO Q1 which is advertised as a portable DAC > and headphone amp. I think the person who recommended it to me > forgot that I needed recording capability and so it > arrived, sounds wonderful, but no recording capability. I'll keep > it because it is not useless, but I wouldn't have bought it had I > known it is another limited-appeal product. > > What I am doing is recording audio from two scanner > radios so even a medioker sound card would probably be quite > sufficient but capture capability is an absolute must. > > Is what I am looking for that rare these days? > > Thanks for any pointers on how to craft lawyerly search language > that will land on USB sound cards that also record line-level > audio in stereo. > > Many thanks. > > Martin McCormick > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity > planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
