On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:05:47PM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Bob Buckley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can patch into your sound card using, usually, a RCA-Y to stereo 1/8 > > inch phone jack. Ensure that you don't over drive the sound card in put. > > I.e., ensure that you pickoff the preamp. > > That sounds a lot like what I'm doing from the computer speaker out plug.
Yup, it's similar. Your soundcard should have (at least) two 3.5mm stereo connectors, one of them being "Line Out" (where you hook your external speakers or your stereo up to) and one labled "Line In". That's the one you need to record. All you need is the cable already mentioned, i.e. 2xCinch on one side and a 3.5mm stereo plug on the other side. *Don't* use the "Mic" (=microphone) input - very often, they have extra amplifiers which will cause distortion, if youdrive them with an ordinary line signal. > I have no idea what you are talking about here about picking off the preamp. > I guess you mean like tapping in at the tape deck out that would > normally go to an amplifier. That's one option. I think, what Bob's getting at is that you shouldn't use the "speaker" output of your stereo to drive the sound card - the signal will be much, much too high and you'll get loads of extra noise and distortion. I made good experiences with using the "Tape Out" output of my pre-amplifier (fortunately, mine has two of them), so to the amp, the computer is just another "tape". > So what would a session look like: cables from the output of tape deck > that would normally go to an amplifier get routed to the computer. > Can you give details of what happens on the computer end. What gets > plugged to what. And once connected. On one computer I see three 1/8 > plugs: pink green and blue They are unmarked in any way but green is > out to speakers. They're not labeled? Not even symbols? Odd... Don't you just hate manufacturers? :-} Green is "Line Out" as mentioned above. The blue one is "Line In", the pink one is "Mic". BTW: I stumbled across this site, which seems to have a lot of information about what you intend to do: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc2/v19/vic19.htm It also describes the colour codes and cables. As for software, I'd recommend "gramofile", which is a text based tool to do exactly what you want: Record records/tapes and make them available digitally. It also has a "silence detector", which helps to automatically split the tracks (i.e. you record the whole thing, then split it into separate tracks) and a filter to suppres cracks/pops from LPs. I've used it with good success - very nice little program. Mandrake has RPMs for it - I just downloaded the SRPM and did a "rpm --rebuild" - worked fine on my RHL 7.3 system. Cheerio, Thomas -- ==> RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&r=1&w=2 <== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
