Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-29 Thread Zsolt Ero
Thanks for the answers! I'm mostly trying to use the device to measure DAC and amplifier performance and distortions, so it's not necessarily bad to capture higher frequencies as well. I'll choose 24-bit / 192 kHz or 96 kHz probably. So the defaults work fine, if you say nothing is wrong with it

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-29 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 22:02:10 -0400, Alan Corey wrote: On 9/28/20, Zsolt Ero wrote: I have a few questions related to arecord, which I couldn't find in the man pages nor anywhere on the internet. My use case is very simple, I'd like to record stereo

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:19:54 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: PS: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options >It's for 24 bit, 192000 Hz sample rate. FWIW professional >studio audio recordings are usually done at 48

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 22:02:10 -0400, Alan Corey wrote: >On 9/28/20, Zsolt Ero wrote: >> I have a few questions related to arecord, which I couldn't find in >> the man pages nor anywhere on the internet. >> >> My use case is very simple, I'd like to record stereo 24/192 audio >> into a WAV file

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-28 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, Alan Corey wrote: I would say you're in danger of overthinking it, try the defaults first. And read the man pages. Except when you say 24/192 I'm thinking 192 kbits/sec? My usb sound I presume he means 24 bits per sample, 192K samples per second per channel which

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-28 Thread Alan Corey
Oh, never mind unless you mean 192k samples/sec. On 9/28/20, Alan Corey wrote: > I would say you're in danger of overthinking it, try the defaults first. > > Except when you say 24/192 I'm thinking 192 kbits/sec? My usb sound > cards can only do 48 max. Yours may do better. I was just looking

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-28 Thread Alan Corey
I would say you're in danger of overthinking it, try the defaults first. Except when you say 24/192 I'm thinking 192 kbits/sec? My usb sound cards can only do 48 max. Yours may do better. I was just looking into it for SDR purposes, the tuning range depends on the max sample rate. SPDIF has

[Alsa-user] arecord command line options

2020-09-28 Thread Zsolt Ero
Hello, I have a few questions related to arecord, which I couldn't find in the man pages nor anywhere on the internet. My use case is very simple, I'd like to record stereo 24/192 audio into a WAV file from an E-MU 0202 USB interface using an old laptop (Core 2 Duo). For this I thought of using