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I've done a few tests and observed the following: 1. When recording from the USB turntable there is no discernible CPU activity (I have two CPU activity monitors - one for each core) either with or without playthrough enabled. 2. If I load the Alsa OSS modules UDEV creates /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp1 and /d...

Steve

Many thanks for that huge amount of information - it must have taken you the whole weekend to write.

When I tried previously it was on this machine (Dual Core 2.13 GHz) and I made a number of recordings without any problems.

I'll have to experiment a bit more.

Yes I said in my post that if I turned off Software Playthrough recording then works.

However in an older version of Audacity (1.2.4) using OSS I could use playthrough whilst recording without problems. I'd like to be able to do the same with this version.

Debian Tesing with kernel 2.6.23 Audacity 1.3.4 On-board Intel 82801G (ICH7) Ion USB turntable If I record from the above turntable with the Software Playthrough off there are no problems and I get a good recording. :D If I turn the Playthrough on all I get is a sharp burst of sound which lasts for ...

With reference to my previous posting entitled 'Audacity fails with USB recording input' the problem was Audacity coupled with Alsa. I downgraded Audacity from 1.3 to 1.2 and, using OSS emulation under Alsa, discovered that recording from a USB turntable worked perfectly. I'll stick with the old ver...

Debian Testing up to date as of today. Audacity 1.3.3 Kernel 2.6.22.6 plus alsa modules I have a record deck with a USB connection which I last used about 12 months ago. The setup was working then and, as I remember, it was pretty straightforward to set up. Since that time there have been many Debia...